Best Foreseeing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.”

Way Ends Whole Chance Mere Length Rope Stratagem Nooses Foreseeing

Book:Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

Source: Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

“Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.”

Memories Happened Convenience Foreseeing

Book:Francesca Carrara

Source: Francesca Carrara

“A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.”

Men May Lying Future Wit Misfortunes Employed Hereafter Foreseeing

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.”

Humans Suffering Ability Animal Conditions Possibility Creatures Capacity Complexity Frustrated Imperatives Tense Foreseeing

Author:John Updike

“Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.”

People Kind Two Deals Danger Clever Expenses Foreseeing

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“Nature consists of facts and of regularities, and is in itself neither moral nor immoral. It is we who impose our standards upon nature, and who in this way introduce morals into the natural world, in spite the fact that we are part of this world. We are products of nature, but nature has made us together with our power of altering the world, of foreseeing and of planning for the future, and of making far-reaching decisions for which we are morally responsible. Yet, responsibility, decisions, enter the world of nature only with us”

“Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Christian Darkness Ignorance Delusion Priests Milk Cows Blindness Preventing Foreseeing

Book:In Praise of Folly

Source: In Praise of Folly

“And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.”

Ifs Has Beens Matter Seems Happens Causes Views Lord Saws Wise Ignorance Luck Accidents Point Of View Providence Blindness Our Lord Lord God Foreseeing

Author:Julian of Norwich

“In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.”

World Life Important Change Learning Subjects Future Skills Acquire Rest Of Your Life Acquisition Live And Learn Life Learning You Live And You Learn Constantly Learning Foreseeing

Book:Re-Inventing the Corporation

Source: Re-Inventing the Corporation

“Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves.”

Made Helping Law Lying Results Wonder Knowing Path Happened Evolution Circumstances Mass Balls Blind Intention Monsters Planning Hills Giants Spite Flakes Snowball Foreseeing

Author:Mark Twain

“While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.”

Source: Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

“Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.”

Ifs Men Should Mean War Desire Danger Concern Terror Gentle Sufficient Overwhelming Foolhardy Headstrong Foreseeing Overwhelming Desire

Author:Christine de Pizan

“God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.”

Believe Persons God Certain Individual Religious Knowing Grace Particular Eternity Foundation Damn Theologian Persevere Foresight Preventing Decree Foreseeing

Author:Jacobus Arminius

“Although the optimist may be a little giddy when foreseeing the future, telling himself that it will all work out in the end when that isn't always the case, his attitude is more fruitful since, in the hope of undertaking a hundred projects, followed up by diligent action, the optimist will end up completing fifty. Conversely, in limiting himself to undertake a mere ten, the pessimist might complete five at best and often fewer, since he'll devote little energy to a task he feels to be doomed from the start.”

Source: The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill

“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”

Knows Needs Night Waiting Seeing Lovers Moon Sitting Rose Patient Time Of Need Foreseeing Sitting And Waiting

Author:Shams Tabrizi

“Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”

Knows Needs Lovers Moon Patient Time Of Need Foreseeing Sitting And Waiting

Author:Rumi

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”

Source: Families in Peril: An Agenda for Social Change