Top 177 Foresight Quotes & Sayings

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

I don't have much foresight, and I think that's an asset for an actor.

A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events in the world, and foresight, or an intuitive grasp of the big picture, such as the trajectory of politics and popular culture.

Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

Vengeance is without foresight.

I was surrounded by art by virtue of not only the educational opportunities that my mother's foresight availed me to.

Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others. It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall.

Orwell had a very accurate foresight of today's dystopian world we live in. If only he was around to see it.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

Foresight is not about predicting the future, it's about minimizing surprise.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23

Fear is the mother of foresight.

If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

?"There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

A leader should be a visionary and have more foresight than an employee.

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Patience and foresight are the two most important qualities in business

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

Foresight turns out to be a critical adaptive strategy for times of great stress.

There's no possibility that foresight work will ruin my creativity. It goes to a different area than the creative wellspring of SF.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

We need people with foresight who are willing to make films with smaller budgets and accept smaller profits.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.

If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it.

Vengeance has no foresight.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight.

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

I still have a lot of those depressive thoughts, but now I have the foresight to tell myself, 'Don't think like that,' and things seem better.

One who thinks and reflects develops his foresight and vision.

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.