Quotes About Foresight

Chronicler looked down, shaking his head. "I don't understand this fear you have of the Cthaeh," he said. "Well," Bast said, "evidence seems to indicate that you're not terribly smart.

You know you're clever. That's your weakness. You assume you know what you're getting into, but you don't.

Both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of.

Vision over visibility

There is one possibility left,' he wrote on Christmas Day 1913, 40 years ahead of his time, 'an industrial customs union, of which sooner or later, for better or worse, the states of Western Europe would become members… Fuse the industries of Europe into one … and political interests will fuse too.' (2)

My God, Cale, if you only knew with what little sense the world is run. There has been no disaster visited on mankind that was not warned of by someone— never, not in all the history of the world. And no one who ever gave such warnings and was proved right ever got any good out of it.

Más vale matar a la primera rata antes de que la casa se llene de ellas.

Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; a man's heart is seldom happy if he is truly wise. Moderately wise a man should be— don't wish for too much wisdom; if you can't see far into the future, you can live free from care.32

But hope is only man's mistrust of the clear foresight of his mind.

Most things in the world are not unexpected if one thinks carefully about them. Even something one would call unusual- if one things about it, it's really just a thing that was supposed to happen. Encountering unusual events often means you didn't think things through.

When I started on this I had forty-forty vision.

Prudence doth not abate diligence, but guides it in its worke.

The best way to predict your future is to create it

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

That's just to start?' 'Yeah.' 'Giu. So what happens after that?' 'Whatever needs to happen. That's the whole point of being strategic.

The writers see where we're headed before the scientists do. What we discover in nature is not really a matter of what exists; what we find is determined by our ability to understand.

It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.

Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his masterís footsteps behind him?”

The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.

The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.

Divide your portion among seven, or even eight, for you do not know what disaster may befall the land.

So be on your guard; I have told you everything in advance.

And when the south wind blows, you say, ëIt will be hot,í and it is.

Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?