Quotes About Insight

You can only predict things after they have happened.

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

You can tell a person's past, present and future by listening to the words they use.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

The future is not Google-able.

Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

Your future is only as bright as your mind is open.

I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures.

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.

The softest breeze to fairest flowers gives birth: Think not that Prudence dwells in dark abodes, She scans the future with the eye of gods.

My divine sign indicates the future to me.

The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.