Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

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

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

The past is all we know of the future.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

We can invent only with memory.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.