Quotes About Insight

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don't have much of a vision for the future or you're not ready to articulate it.

The only woman to whom it has been given to touch what is decisive in the present world and to have a presentiment of the world of the future.

If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.

when the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

In the early stages of innovation, your goal is to learn as much as you can as quickly as you can.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.