Quotes about Foresight

He who digs a pit may fall into it, and he who breaches a wall may be bitten by a snake.

Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.

“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.

See, I have told you in advance.

The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil.

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

‘No,’ said the wise ones, ‘or there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

I know what I will do, so that after my removal from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

When Paul had been called in, Tertullus opened the prosecution: “Because of you, we have enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought improvements to this nation.

Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The Statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journeys end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

If thou be not busy for thyself now, who shall be busy for thee in time to come?