Quotes About Prescience

Among the reasons Donald Trump is president is that he read the nation and the world better than his rivals.

With great prescience he warned of the need to develop common bargaining goals for autoworkers in all auto-producing nations as a means of counteracting global wage competition, and recommended the country turn its attention to repairing bridges, roads, and other infrastructures.

There were times when he had the air of a mystic about him, as children sometimes do, as if he were staring calmly into the nature of things and had the wisdom to know there were no words for it. But more often his prescience spun him into worry.

Darwin, with typical prescience, suspected that this might be the case: Man alone is capable of progressive improvement. That he is capable of incomparably greater and more rapid improvement than is any other animal, admits of no dispute; and this is mainly due to his power of speaking and handing down his acquired knowledge.

Many intelligent and well-informed people were keenly interested in the future of the economy and did not believe a catastrophe was imminent; I infer from this fact that the crisis was not knowable. What is perverse about the use of know in this context is not that some individuals get credit for prescience that they do not deserve. It is that the language implies that the world is more knowable than it is. It helps perpetuate a pernicious illusion.

A few lucky gambles can crown a reckless leader with a halo of prescience and boldness.

When I was still quite young I had a complete presentiment of life. It was like the nauseating smell of cooking escaping from a ventilator: you don't have to have eaten it to know that it would make you throw up.

Samo oni koji vide šta ?e se dogoditi prežive, mora da je to pravilo.

Foreknowledge is power.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

It's waiting for us: it seems to know.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

Olive was in the habit of saying "honestly" so often that even a child could see that she must be deceitful. I marveled at her mother's prescience in having named her daughter after a green—with envy—cocktail garnish: hollow and bitter.

We've read the back of the book, we know what's going to happen.

No matter what you do—somebody, somewheres, knew that you would.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen.

Churchill's prescience about Communism had mirrored what he had said about Nazism, but this time he was able to halt the appeasement that might otherwise have once again become the West's default mechanism.

I think that any sort of fantasy or sci fi that is grounded in something that could ostensibly be real - 'Jurassic Park' being my favorite example - is that much more prescient because it means that much more. Maybe one day, what if?

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

So maybe he had known she was coming.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

Erdosain was standing stock still, but his mind raced off on a minute-long journey like someone floating through a dream landscape—the kind of experience that afterwards seems to prove life is shot through with a prescient fatalism.