81 Quotes About Foresight

We ought to live each day as though it were our last day here below. But if I did, alas, I know it would have killed me long ago.

It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.

Foresight being the memory of the future, when everything is seeable nothing is any longer foreseeable.

Do you think, if Columbus had stood on the bow of his ship, looked at the New World and understood everything to come, all the disease and death and betrayal, all the ugliness, all the blood - do you think he would have embraced it, called it paradise?

It’s having no foresight that makes the temporary unbearable.

When you get lost in your imaginatory vagueness your foresight will become a nimble vagrant.

We can predict the present without having to know everything about the past.

This antitrust thing will blow over.

foresight in establishing a White House millennium commission.