#foresight

Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

#credit #doing #foresight #give #give me

Humans are often credited with having real foresight, in distinction to the rest of biology which does not. For example, Dawkins compares the 'blind watchmaker' of natural selection with the real human one. 'A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with a future purpose in his mind's eye. Natural selection . . . has no purpose in mind'. I think this distinction is wrong. There is no denying that the human watchmaker is different from the natural one. We humans, by virtue of having memes, can think about cogs, and wheels, and keeping time, in a way that animals cannot. Memes are the mind tools with which we do it. But what memetics shows us is that the processes underlying the two kinds of design are essentially the same. They are both evolutionary processes that give rise to design through selection, and in the process they produce what looks like foresight. ↗

— Susan J. Blackmore

#design #foresight #memetics #design

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. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#foresight #knowledge #nature

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#foresight #africa

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist. ↗

— Edward Koch

#foresight #primitive #strategist

One can have only as much preparation as he has foresight. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#sigrun-gard #change

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#insight #life-foresight #sight #vision #life

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

#knowledge #women #love

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#forethought #may #undoubtedly

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. ↗

— Xun Zi

#ease #foresight #knowledge #penetrating #sincerity