Future Insight Quotes

My brother has endless footage of us as kids because he had a video camera when we were growing up. The trippiest part was my younger self predicting my future path, like a truth-seer.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

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

Knowlege is of no real value if all you can tell me is what happened yesterday. It is necessary to tell what will happen tomorrow ... you must be willing to stick your neck out.

I see stuff from the future, and I'm such a futurist that I have to slow down and talk in the present.

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.

Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.

If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.

Sometimes the subconscious mind manifests a wisdom several steps or even years ahead of the conscious mind, and has its own way of leading us toward our destiny.

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

He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

The trick now is to turn insight into foresight. The trick is to know this about your tomorrow, today... Remember, your future is not coming to you; it's coming through you...change your idea about the changes to come, even as you change your idea about the changes that have passed. Then you can change your experience of both.

This time next year,—this time ten years,—this time one hundred years,—probably it will be just as easy as we think it is to understand that glass of water, which now seems so plain and simple. I cannot doubt but that these things, which now seem to us so mysterious, will be no mysteries at all; that the scales will fall from our eyes; that we shall learn to look on things in a different way—when that which is now a difficulty will be the only commonsense and intelligible way of looking at the subject

You can see the future best through peripheral vision.

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.