Foresightedness Quotes

Any 6 year old’s hindsight is better than a President’s foresight.

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.

The best vision is insight.

While politicians may be forgiven for failing to predict the future - who can, alas? - it is amazing that they defiantly ignore the past.

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.

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

Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.