Quotes About Prescience

#1. 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.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#2. If the sale of flesh could be made as easily as the sale of spiritual exemption, the prescience of a dedicated businessman might be well preserved.

Michelle Franklin

#3. In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

John Burns

#4. I und'standed why Meronym'd not said the hole true 'bout Prescience Isle an' her tribe too. People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin 'em it ain't so caves the roofs on their heads'n'maybe yours. Old

David Mitchell

#5. No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.

Barry Ritholtz

#6. The New York Times, with what was threatening to become a customary lack of prescience, forecast that it would never be a serious competitor for radio because "people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn't time for it."34

Bill Bryson

#7. All unnecessary vows are folly, because they suppose a prescience of the future, which has not been given us.

Samuel Johnson

#8. Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Dan Hill

#9. There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

Frank Herbert

#11. Any hope of prescience requires a constant questioning of what is, and a deep-seated belief in the possibility of what can be.

R.A. Salvatore

#12. God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

Saint Augustine

#13. Outsiders became keen to join an organization [European Community] that offered attractive bribes to the poor. Greece did so in 1981 and Spain and Portugal in 1986. - written before 2003.

J.M. Roberts

#14. Some consider UNIX to be the second most important invention to come out of AT&T Bell Labs after the transistor.

Dennis Ritchie

#15. This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.

Haruki Murakami

#16. It is a consolation or a misfortune that the wrong kind of people are too often correct in their prognostications of the future; the far-seeing are also the foolish.

Robbie Ross

#17. Armon stared into the wild darkness of his opponent and saw a reflection of his own fall.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#18. Your state of mind is the most important factor in the outcome of your life.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#19. There's no way for me to warn you about the terrible things that I know are going to happen.

Dexter Palmer

#20. Beyonce is one of my inspirations. Her attitude, her style, her voice ... she's perfect.

Charice Pempengco

#21. of all, it needed a name. I thought about it for a while and came up with Operation R.A.F.E., which stands for: Rules Aren't For Everyone

James Patterson

#22. Without any way out, not even toward the depth.

Franz Kafka

#23. I hadn't learned to decipher the mysterious ways of the undermind, How occasionally it erupts into an avalanche of clarity, a sheet of snow shearing off the roof and thundering to the ground, leaving the shingles exposed, knowledge issuing a messenger to announce its arrival.

Kate Bolick

#24. It might have looked beautiful, had she not known what corruption and filth dwelt within it. And what monstrosity ruled over it all.

Sarah J. Maas

#25. Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

Tess Gerritsen

#26. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Christopher Hitchens