Forethought Quotes

• Forethought spares afterthought.

  Amelia Barr

  Planning, Foresight, Spares

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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• In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

  Charles Buxton

  Life, Winning, Focus

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883). “Notes of Thought”

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• As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Reflection, Men, Names

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.2

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• He who exercises no forethought but makes light of his opponents is sure to be captured by them.

  Sun Tzu

  Art Of War, Exercise, Light

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Successful, Issues

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• Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

  Robert Dale Owen

  Courage, Adventure, Aquariums

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• For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

  Amelia Barr

  Sorrow, Stills, Spares

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.53, Litres

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• The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.

  Euripides

  Wise, Courage, Men

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

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• Treasures are not won by care and forethought but by swift slaying and reckless attack.

  Michael Moorcock

  Treasure, Care, Reckless

  Michael Moorcock (2008). “Elric The Stealer of Souls”, p.14, Del Rey

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• The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

  Robert Barr

  Intelligent, Moments, Critical

  Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.44, Oldcastle Books

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• I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

  Robin McKinley

  Tree, Wish

  Robin McKinley (2014). “The Hero and the Crown”, p.34, Open Road Media

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  May, Foresight

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• A man exercising no forethought will soon experience present sorrow.

  Confucius

  Exercise, Men, Sorrow

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• The Second Rule is that the greatest harm can result from the best intentions. It sounds a paradox, but kindness and good intentions can be an insidious path to destruction. Sometimes doing what seems right is wrong, and can cause harm. The only counter to it is knowledge, wisdom, forethought, and understanding the First Rule. Even then, that is not always enough.

  Terry Goodkind

  Kindness, Understanding, Sound

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• Being busy does not always mean real work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Real, Mean, Infinite Intelligence

  Ford Times, Volume 6 (p. 136), 1912.

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• I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Grief, Generosity

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

  Lord David Cecil

  Littles, Too Much, Fool

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• A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Men, Graves, Resignation

  "The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase". Book by Jacob Schuckers, 1874.

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• For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Grace, World, Still Waters

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.

  Greg Kinnear

  Crazy, Character, Giving

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• Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Real

  Ford Times, Vol. 6, p. 136, 1912.

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• The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Money, Acceptance, Self

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• When despair for the world grows in me...
  I come into the presence of still water.
  And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
  For a time I rest in the grace of the world,
  and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Stars, Light, Water

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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• To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

  Octavia Butler

  Fool, Opportunist

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.217, Open Road Media

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• When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Stars, Children

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.79, Counterpoint Press

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