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Foresee Quotes

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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

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

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

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

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

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.
Mohandas Gandhi

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

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.
Evel Knievel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Maria Callas

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

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

The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Friedrich August von Hayek

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