21 quotes found
“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”
“You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.”
“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 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.”
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen nextif you knew in advance the consequences of your own actionsyou'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd b...”
“No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.”
“If we wish to foresee the future of mathematics, our proper course is to study the history and present condition of the science.”
“This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof constructio...”
“Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not”
“There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.”
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)”
“In life as in chess forethought wins.”
“If a man take no thought about what is distant he will find sorrow near at hand.”
“Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.”
“Look ere thou leap see ere thou go.”
