Prevision Quotes:

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

topic: Science, Common Sense, Experience, Prevision

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.312, Princeton University Press

topic: Imperfect Things, Economics, Foresight, Prevision

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

- Barrett Wendell

topic: Writing, Revision, Paragraph, Prevision

The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.

- Elihu Thomson

topic: Mother, Art, Memories, Prevision

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

- Bertrand Russell

source: Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Fire, Feelings, Individual Life, Unyielding