Quotes About Foresight

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

I don't have much foresight, and I think that's an asset for an actor.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.

We frequently look into the future of mankind and see dangers. We see if we carry on doing what we are doing in 20 years' time there will be no rainforests left, just to use one example. Looking into the future may be one of the reasons that brains evolved in the first place.

Keep your enemies in front of you.

Thinking about the future is fundamentally important to dealing with the challenges of today.

It is of course lawful to learn of the Enemy; but is it sensible?

A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable—in thirty years' time? In those days thought, in families, went in periods of thirty years, owner gravely consulting heir who should see that development of light and shade that the owner never would.

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured. "For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?" "You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

And he realized with an abrupt sense shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.

Yes. They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.' Yes…that's what they'll call me." And

?uvaj se staza koje sužavaju budu?e mogu?nosti. Takve staze odmi?u od beskona?nosti i navode te u klopke smrtnosti.

Bojim se slijepih, Stil. Bojim ih se. Oni tako lako mogu slomiti sve što im se na?e na putu.

but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

short-term expediency always fails in the long term.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.