Quotes About Foresight

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Lorsque la bêtise gifle l'intelligence, l'intelligence a le droit de se conduire bêtement.

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

I know it's crazy, but I actually prefer to prepare for disaster and worst-case scenarios, rather than panic once they do occur.

PLANNING AHEAD IS A measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

The best way to avoid challenges is to expect them.

The old saying in defense planning is that one must judge an adversary's capabilities, rather than its intentions.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen," said British politician Enoch Powell.

Man with a crossbow in the proper position at the proper time's worth a corps of heavy artillery half an hour late and ten miles down the road from where it should be.

This is well to be weighed, that boldness is ever blind, for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences; therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution...

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

Well, son, it's this way — unfortunately, increasin' th' hoss power don't increase th' hoss sense any.

Fear is the mother of foresight: spiritual fear... temporal fear...

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of afterthought

I am a practical man, I try to control the shape of the 'nows' which lie in the offing, instead of submitting to them as they occur.

You claim to see. Have you ever glimpsed a vision of the future that proved true?" I hadn't. I hadn't, because every dire vision I'd been afforded, I'd found a way to avert.

with that insight which comes to a man only once or twice in his lifetime, allowing him to see ahead into the structure of the years.

We are never prepared for what we expect

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it... but those who remember the future can plan ahead for the weather.

Aceia care uit? trecutul sunt blestema?i s?-l repete, dar cei care-?i amintesc viitorul pot s? se preg?teasc? pentru orice."

People are walking around blind. If you are the one who can see, you will be able to navigate through this new world.

It's funny about people. Just before something happens, you almost know what it is. You do know what it is, I believe. You just haven't had the time—and now you won't have the time—to say it to yourself.

if one could read, in the dullness of his eye, anything so real as a future.