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Foresight

Anticipation, apprehension, foreboding, prediction, prophecy

QUOTES

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley.
 Robert Burns
 To a Mouse, 1786

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
 Hippocrates
 -430

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
 Albert Einstein
 1930

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember the past.
 Lord Halifax
 1750

In the long run, we are all dead.
 John Maynard Keynes
 1923

You can never plan the future by the past.
 Edmund Burke
 1791

She felt that those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
 E M Forster
 Howard's End, 1910

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.
 Virgil
 -40

See Also

References

History
  • Egyptian planning for plagues
  • Inca storehousing of food
  • Dutch construction of dikes
  • Maginot Line (although it failed)
  • Planning for D-Day or any military excursion

    Arts & Science

  • Quarantines
  • Depictions of heaven and hell

    Literature

  • The entire science fiction genre
  • Jules Verne
  • Theodore Dreiser: An American tragedy
  • Aesop: The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Fox and the Goat




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