Top Foresight Quotes

Every invention began as an imagination.

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Foresight Definition

(n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.

(n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.

(n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.

(n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.

In life as in chess forethought wins.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

Look ere thou leap see ere thou go.

If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

The British have always been madly overambitious, and from one angle it can seem like bravery, but from another it looks suspiciously like a lack of foresight.

Through adversity, not only are we given an opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after u...