Foresee Quotes

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer industry, the path that von Neumann failed to foresee, becoming small and domesticated rather than big and centralized.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

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.

Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the eurozone, no longer necessarily consists of 17 member states. And that means to make provisions so that other countries are not pulled into the maelstrom through contagion.

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.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

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.

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

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.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

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.

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.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'

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.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

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.

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

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.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.