May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Irish Blessings
Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.
Unknown
Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.
Unknown
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill
The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.
Joseph Addison
The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead.
Theodore Roosevelt
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been The foresight to know where you are going And the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Irish Blessing
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
Charles Caleb Colton
Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insight.
Unknown
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vengeance has no foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned watchers of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."
U Thant