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Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.

Staring at danger may not be pleasant – but closing your eyes will not make the danger go away, and with closed eyes you will surely be destroyed by it.

If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next — if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions — you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.

Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)

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We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas, I know
it would have killed me long ago.

Piet Hein, 20th-century Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet

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Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

Panic is something that good operations officers plan for.

She doesn't think it's a good idea to know the future, because you can hardly ever change it, so why suffer twice?

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

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.

We were created with more than five senses. Apart from the basic five, we also have the gut and the third eye. The gut being the seat of all feeling, and the third eye being the seat of intuition (foresight).

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.

William S. Burroughs, American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

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The earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants the the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences remote in time and place.

16 Quotes Tagged: foresight

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