quotes about Foresight
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It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.
-- Anya SetonSource : Anya Seton (2016). “The Turquoise”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
-- Chester W. NimitzSource : "The Magnificent Mitscher". Book by Theodore Taylor, 1954.
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One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.
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We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.
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Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
-- Kevin Kline -
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.
-- Natalie Clifford BarneySource : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub
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The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
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Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.
-- Thomas TusserSource : Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.221
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
-- Xunzi -
Let us not have puny thoughts. Let us think on a greater scale. Let us not have those of the future decry our smallness of concept and lack of foresight.
-- Adolph Murie -
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.
-- Henry TaylorSource : Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.82
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Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.
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