Quotes About Foresight

We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within.

Do what supports your long-term goals not what is easier.

Looking forward as you reflect back ….. encourages success at your feet" rdp

God knows the end from the beginning.

Strategic planning for the future is the most hopeful indication of our increasing social intelligence.

Always assume your opponent to be smarter than you.

Prevention is the daughter of intelligence.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

There is just no way any management with any intelligence and foresight cannot recognize the value of a corporate image. It is the best, single marketable investment that a company can make.

Cautious people are often criticized by those who later become victims.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

We believe no evil till the evil's done.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

On se moque des diseurs de bonne aventure. Il faut sinon se moquer, en tout cas se méfier des bâtisseurs d'avenir. Surtout quand pour bâtir l'avenir des hommes à naître, ils ont besoin de faire mourir les hommes vivants. L'homme n'est la matière première que de sa propre vie. Je refuse d'obéir.

If one knew there would be enough then one wouldn't grab. That was another thing that was bad about the way we used to be. It was all grab grab grab while one could in case tomorrow one couldn't.)

quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem.

It is the ability to make predictions about the future that is the crux of intelligence.

We are different, my friend. We are visionaries. A monkey looks up and sees and banana, and that is as far as he looks. But a visionary looks up and sees the moon.

things that suggest themselves in sleep almost always work out.

And off he marched, his shoulders squared and his eyes lifted to the horizon. He looked so splendid I didn't have the heart to point out the disadvantages of this posture; when one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing. Sure enough, he stumbled into Ramses' pile of potsherds and went sprawling.

What is done matters, but what is yet to do matters far more.