Quotes About Foresight

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

I yield to no man in sympathy for the gallant men under my command; but I am obliged to sweat them tonight, so that I may save their blood tomorrow.

To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.

he recalled how a voice in his head had warned that he would pay for his pleasure one day. Now that the day had come

For all we know, the handwriting might have been on the wall all along. The question is: was the ink invisible?

Those who don't heed the warnings don't live to admit they were stupid not to do so.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

a conocer las conclusiones antes

There's a special kind of man who plants a tree when he knows he'll move on before it's big enough for him to sit in it's shade.

But in the moment, how can you turn away when Someday can suddenly be real?

you can never plan well enough. Life will always outwit you.

You have a bad habit of listing anything that can go wrong, Volger. I have always considered that a good habit

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

What they write today you'll eat your chips from tomorrow. Remember that through your tears.

He'll never understand or see, they'll never give him what they gave us, he'll step in the wrong places and look when he should look away, never see doors or know turnings; wait and see, you just wait and see";

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

A genuine purpose always starts with an impulse. Obstruction of the immediate execution of an impulse converts it into a desire. Nevertheless neither impulse nor desire is itself a purpose. A purpose is an end-view. That is, it involves foresight of the consequences which will result from acting upon impulse.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before.