41 Foresee Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Future You Past Rose Too Changing Back Over Empires Look Fell Foresee

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

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

Nature Man Will Lost Earth Destroying He Foresee End Capacity

Being a unique superpower undermines the military intelligence of strategy. To think strategically, one has to imagine oneself in the enemy's place. If one cannot do this, it is impossible to foresee, to take by surprise, to outflank. Misinterpreting an enemy can lead to defeat. This is how empires fall. John Berger

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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. Barbara Jordan

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. E. M. Forster

Freedom Censorship Nervous Past Enough Dangers We Cannot Willing Outcome Admit About She Safely Praise Foresee Get Tucked In The Past Cannot Amidst Whose Away Her Present Nuisance

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

Day Nothing Telegram Shall Read Prayers Foresee

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious. Adam Hochschild

War World Problems Victory Made First Politicians Assume Seem Invariably Tendency Remarkably Lead Generals Clear Almost Obvious Hindsight First World First World War Foresee Nations Enduring Painfully Swift World War