Quotes About Foresight

Allí donde no hay visión, el pueblo perece… PROVERBIOS, 29, 18

I know they will murder him," she said, "and then when it is too late they will find out what they have done!

men of sense often learn from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learned from a friend, but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

A prudent person after all can pick something Even from an enemy.

There was something supremely sexy about a man who planned ahead like this, who wore his options like a tool belt, ready for any emergency.

They ought to have looked forward meekly to the prodigious feats of posterity; but having too little faith and too much conceit, they were content to look behind and make comparisons with the past. They did not foresee the miraculous generation which is us.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

It is vital to remember that information-- in the sense of raw data-- is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

I Remember Babylon First published in Playboy, March 1960 Collected in Tales of Ten Worlds This is one of the rare cases where I violated Sam Goldwyn's excellent rule: 'If you gotta message, use Western Union.' This story was a message, five years before the first commercial communications satellite was launched, warning of their possible danger. Apart from some minor political earthquakes, everything in it has since come true.

There is nothing in the least exciting or glamorous about deep-water operations—if they're done properly. Excitement means lack of foresight, and that means incompetence. The incompetent do not last long in my business, nor do those who crave excitement. I went about my job with all the pent-up emotion of a plumber dealing with a leaking faucet.

to understand the future, it was necessary to know the past.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

Beware the seeds that are planted, even in the most fallow of fields. For those we lay with callous hands, might very well prove to be those of our ultimate destruction.

Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry.

Never let a friendly fox into your hen-house. One day he's going to get hungry.

They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that was somehow larger than theirs, that he had firm sight of a future that he somehow knew was better, as well as being a future that was definably different and, most crucially, utterly unlike the world of the present.

And if you find I've lied, from this day on call the prophet blind.

That will come when it comes; we must deal with all that lies before us. The future rests with the ones who tend the future.

What men have seen they know;             but what shall come hereafter             no man before the event can see, 1420    nor what end waits for him.

Time, seeing all things, has found You out as you did not foresee.

Thus (through the eyes of my young acolyte, Who sees for me, that I may see for others) I read the signs of failure in my quest.

What you think later makes you wrong before.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards