Quotes About Foresight

The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we're like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

People recognize something's going to happen, and they'd better get ready.

What happened in the past can help you know what's going to happen in the future. That insight brings a next level of intelligence not just to sales and marketing but to ERP, where you can save more money in procurement or figure out whether the people you recruit are going to be successful in your organization.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

If you can't envision where you're going, you'll have a hard time getting there.

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

My grandmother would hide bread for when maybe another war would come. You had to be ready.

Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.

Where is the good of planning upon an if? To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.

Of all useless things a knowledge of the future seems to me the most useless, for what are you to do with a thing before it exists? Such a knowledge could only bewilder you as to the right way to take—would make you see double instead of single.

Foreseeing is not understanding, else surely the prophecy latent in man would come oftener to the surface!

Where is the good of planning upon an if? To trust is to get ready, uncle says. Trust is better than foresight.

For the best men and the weightiest questions are never seen in their time, save by the few.

the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.

What writers, artists, scientists and philosophers say today is indicative of future rather than current developments

El objeto de la guerra es siempre estar en mejor situación para librar otra guerra.

The people who live in any generation do much, he realized, either to create or to solve the problems for the people who come in the generations later.

we can guard ourselves against the unexpected tragedies

should give thought to those future days.

If wisely chosen as to their usefulness and value in the future, they are permanent in their value

This, then, is the sixth cure for a lean purse. Provide in advance for the needs of thy growing age and the protection of thy family.