Definition of Foresee

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Definition of Foresee
	Foresee To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. To provide. To have or exercise foresight. Related Definitions: Beforehand, Exercise, Foreknow, Foresight, Have, Of, Or, Prescience, Provide, See, To

Foresee Quotations

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

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

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

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.
James A. Baldwin

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.
Harry S. Truman

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

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

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

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.
Marian Wright Edelman

Foresee Translations

foresee in Danish is forudse
foresee in Dutch is bedacht zijn op, verwachten
foresee in German is voraussehen, absehen
foresee in Italian is asttrarre, prevedere
foresee in Norwegian is forutse
foresee in Portuguese is preveja
foresee in Spanish is esperar

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