Top 100 Foresee Quotes
#1. By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
C.S. Lewis
#2. The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us.
Michael Tanner
#3. On the day when we are able to foresee inventions we will be living in a state where everything conceivable has been invented. Our
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#4. We have won freedom, he brooded, but if we abuse it, or vote for cheap personal advantage, it won't be worth having. We are familiar with the abuses of kings, but because what we now attempt is new, we can't foresee its abuses. They'll come.
James A. Michener
#5. We cannot foresee what the Lord has in mind for us. Our only course of action is to be prepared and worthy for whatever he requires. We must govern our actions every day with our future in mind.
M. Russell Ballard
#6. I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.
D.W. Griffith
#7. It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't foresee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. How mankind hates himself.
John Steinbeck
#8. One of the main secrets of success is the ability to foresee the situation a few steps forward.
Sahara Sanders
#9. Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.
Maria Callas
#10. I do not foresee a time when I shall feel that I have nothing to say.
Alberto Moravia
#11. The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
Charles Horton Cooley
#12. Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#13. We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.
Pope John XXIII
#14. THIS ACTION THAT I FORESEE
has nothing to do with melodrama
It is that life as lived by me now is a series of exceptions
I was (am?) not unique but special.
This is why I was an artist
Francesca Woodman
#15. Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate
how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#16. Since I do seven different styles of martial arts, I don't foresee myself fighting the same in any two movies. I think every fighting style should fit the character that's doing the fighting.
Michael Jai White
#17. A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#18. Their irreligious pride makes them withdraw from you and eclipse your great light from reaching themselves. They can foresee a future eclipse of the sun, but do not perceive their own eclipse in the present.
Augustine Of Hippo
#19. If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.
Henri Poincare
#20. Try to foresee now everything that might make you interrupt your reading. Cigarettes within reach, if you smoke, and the ashtray. Anything else? Do you have to pee? All right, you know best.
Italo Calvino
#21. I foresee that my life will be much better in future
K.C Mathobela
#22. Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
Cesare Pavese
#23. To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#24. I didn't foresee anything that might kill me that day, and not getting killed was my new bar for what constituted a good day.
Hope Jahren
#25. These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.
Alexander Hamilton
#26. Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Haile Selassie
#27. Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.
Jane Austen
#29. There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet( ... ); the other was the fact that the century would end.
Douglas Adams
#30. it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.
Lee Strobel
#31. Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.
Ruskin Bond
#33. A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.
Joseph Conrad
#34. With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.
Jane Smiley
#35. Just as the PC bled back into industrial economy, I think the Internet is going to bleed back into our overall economy and have a transformative effect on major sectors that we don't yet foresee.
Tim O'Reilly
#36. The second cause of failure to enact good stems from conflict of intention. High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis.
John Fowles
#37. Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'Rourke
#38. We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
E. M. Forster
#39. It i impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever, so you try to avoid it whenever you can.
Christopher Strachey
#40. Nothing is more imminent than the impossible ... what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
Victor Hugo
#41. Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.
Rebecca West
#42. The future will be determined in part by happenings that it is impossible to foresee; it will also be influenced by trends that are now existent and observable.
Emily Greene Balch
#43. 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.
George Orwell
#44. Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
Jean Racine
#45. I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
Francis Bacon
#46. To foresee pleasures makes anybody a poet ... to seek pleasure makes a hero of anyone: you open yourself so entirely to fate.
Elizabeth Bowen
#48. Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
James A. Baldwin
#49. We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.
George Edward Woodberry
#50. I foresee, that, if my wants should be much increased, the labor required to supply them would become a drudgery.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. Pessimism is the basis of all sound expectations. If you foresee nothing good, no outrage can shock you.
Emma Jane Holloway
#52. I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#53. Avarice and injustice are always shortsighted, and they did not foresee how much this regulation must obstruct improvement, and thereby hurt in the long-run the real interest of the landlord.
Adam Smith
#54. Jed
talks about the foreseeable future and
how little there is that we can foresee.
David Levithan
#55. I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
Clayton Christensen
#56. There are days when I definitely look in the mirror and go, "All right, I need to find a cream." I can't foresee myself ever going under the knife, but then again, I'm only in my mid-thirties. Maybe it's different when you're in your mid-sixties.
Kristen Stewart
#57. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
Harry S. Truman
#58. The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.
John Zachary Young
#59. Many Chess players were surprised when after the game, Fischer quietly explained: 'I had already analyzed this possibility' in a position which I thought was not possible to foresee from the opening
Mikhail Tal
#60. Merchants, conquerors and prophets were the first people who managed to transcend the binary evolutionary division, 'us vs them', and to foresee the potential unity of humankind.
Yuval Noah Harari
#61. What's so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they're overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#62. All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of political establishment, they did not have enough experience to foresee its dangers.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#63. one can never predict or foresee what lies ahead when it comes to humans and religion.
Phil Zuckerman
#65. I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
Michael Heseltine
#66. They can't foresee what we intend to do next. This is why they lose their nerve. They can't cross the zone of silence they herd us into. A zone bordered on their side by the distant din of their false accusations, and on our side by our silent final intentions.
John Berger
#67. If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy.
Laurence J. Peter
#68. I never seek controversy or foresee it for my pictures. I take a personal stand, and perhaps because my films are on contemporary subjects, people do not share my point of view.
Otto Preminger
#69. You didn't foresee a troll-riding dwarf pushing your plane down the runway. You must be losing your touch, Artemis. He
Eoin Colfer
#70. we possess the ability to foresee the probable consequences of certain of our behaviors in a given setting, without actually having carried out those behaviors or actually being in those settings.
Dr Simon John
#71. There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many cures, and foresee certain events.
Tertullian
#72. A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying Why?
Dallas Willard
#73. It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
Winston Churchill
#74. The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.
Marcel Proust
#75. Indeed, could any sincere, honest observer foresee a time in this world when an organism's success might in fact be dependent on its politeness in asking permission to consume another organism?
John Zande
#76. Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.
Andrzej Wajda
#77. It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles.
Francois Rabelais
#78. Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.
Craig Zobel
#79. Sometimes you can foresee certain moments in your life. For me, it's usually a moment based on a lie. Cause and effect. You lie, you hide something from the world and you know one day someone will uncover the truth. And you know when that happens, it won't be pretty.
It will be ugly.
Karina Halle
#80. For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.
Nick Bostrom
#81. It will never again be what it was. It's a wonder that I didn't foresee the cataclysm, but then I never really envision the finish of anything that I start.
Anne Rice
#82. The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee.
Carl Sagan
#84. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. I can't say I can foresee the future and tell the stars, you know. But I do have an understanding for my own reality, just elements and things that I've learned from.
Jenna Elfman
#87. I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course
the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.
Douglas Adams
#88. I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
Osamu Dazai
#89. You can't foresee all the consequences of your actions - But that's no excuse to do nothing.
Hal Jordan
#90. Darren, Prince Darren, the sometimes-bane-of-my-existence, had put faith in a future that even I had never bothered to foresee.
Rachel E. Carter
#91. Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.
Ludwig Von Mises
#92. I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
Jorge Luis Borges
#93. I don't believe any sort of traveler does a better job than any other sort of traveler at obeying traffic safety laws. It's difficult to foresee a camera program that can be used with bikers and walkers.
Robert James Thomson
#94. For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#95. Today is always the result of actions and decisions taken yesterday. Man, however, whatever his title or rank, cannot foresee the future. Yesterday's actions and decisions, no matter how courageous or wise they may have been, inevitably become today's problems,
Peter F. Drucker
#96. There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.
Susanna Kearsley
#97. To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.
Henry David Thoreau
#98. What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?
Ivan Turgenev
#99. I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
Emil Cioran
#100. I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.
Nick Offerman
