Foresight Quotes

We are apt to run from one extreme into another. To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

A bird is like an instrument working according to mathematical law, and it is in the capacity of man to reproduce such an instrument.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.

As a leader, one must sometimes take actions that are unpopular, or whose results will not be known for years to come.

Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised.

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.