Quotes About Foresight

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

Truth told today about yesterday's act can prevent a lot of tomorrow's problems

People from the past belong to the past not to the place which you're heading

For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Be wise today so you don't cry tomorrow.

They don't have intelligence. They have what I call 'thintelligence.' They see the immediate situation. They think narrowly and they call it 'being focused.' They don't see the surround. They don't see the consequences.

The characteristic of vision. That great sweeping act of imagination which evoked a marvelous park, where children pressed against the fences, wondering at the extraordinary creatures, come alive from their storybooks. Real vision. The ability to see the future. The ability to marshal resources to make that future vision a reality.

A characteristic of all crises is their predictability, in retrospect. They seem to have a certain inevitability, they seem predestined.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything

Expertise is no shield against failure to see ahead. Paul Erlich, a brilliant academic who has devoted his entire life to ecological issues, has been wrong in nearly all his major predictions. He was wrong about diminishing resources, he was wrong about the population explosion, and he was wrong that we would lose 50% of all species by the year 2000. His lifelong study of these issues did not prevent him from being wrong.

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race.

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

And because it starts that way, it is more likely to continue that way. And therein resides the true difference between an Adolescent company, where everything is left up to chance, and a Mature company, where there is a vision against which the present is shaped.

Wer keine Vergangenheit mehr hat, der hat auch keine Zukunft.

To maintain an open mind about the future, it is very useful to keep an open mind about the past.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice,' Amos liked to say. 'Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome. Literally

The power of an imagination can arise from what it refuses to foresee.

It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.

On the Psychology of Prediction

Knowledge is literally prediction," said Morey. "Knowledge is anything that increases your ability to predict the outcome.