A danger foreseen is half avoided!
Posted by Nabil Medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, tags: foresee, foreseeable, unforeseeable, unforeseen
- Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead…. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.~ Kathleen Norris
- Could a man foresee events he would never be poor. ~ French Proverb
- Dearth foreseen never came. ~ Italian Proverb
- He who begins a conversation, does not foresee the end.~ Mauritanian Proverb
- He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.~ Chinese Proverb
- He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.~ Bishop Porteous
- I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro… this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.~ Susan Sontag
- If men could foresee the future, they would still behave as they do now.~ Russian Proverb
- In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.~ John Naisbitt
- It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.~ Charles Caleb Colton
- Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: “You can’t deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.” ~ Cesare Pavese
- Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.~ Albert Schweitzer
- Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. ~ Freya Stark
- Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.~ Ludwig Von Mises
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.~ Isaac Asimov
- The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they would, and, in fact, have brought us new problems we did not foresee.~ Henry Ford Ii
- There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.~ Fraude
- The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.~ Lord Byron
- The mind cannot foresee its own advance.~ F.a. Hayek
- The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.~ Confucius
- Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very acts which make it certain that what they dread will happen.~ Rebecca West
- 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 Baldwin
- We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest … might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.~ Daphne Du Maurier
- We won’t always know whose lives we touched and made better for our having cared, because actions can sometimes have unforeseen ramifications. What’s important is that you do care and you act.~ Charlotte Lunsford
- 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
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