Prevision Quotes

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.” “Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.

I believe you can remember the future as much as the past.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.