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Foresight Quotes

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

"The Magnificent Mitscher". Book by Theodore Taylor, 1954.

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

Nikola Tesla (2013). “Famous Scientific Illusions”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Forethought spares afterthought.

Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

"Morrissey interview: Big mouth strikes again". Interview with Simon Armitage, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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

Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.131, Penguin

This antitrust thing will blow over.

"Gates Quoted As Seeing Case 'Blow Over'" by Steve Lohr, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 1998.

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

Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1975). “The Story of Civilization: The age of Napoleon; a history of European civilization from 1789 to 1815”

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go.

Thomas Tusser (1812). “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry”, p.221

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

Anya Seton (2016). “The Turquoise”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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

Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.

Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.82

Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub