Prevision Quotes

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Common Sense, Common

"On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Science, Common Sense, Experience

"On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Imperfect Things, Economics, Foresight

John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.312, Princeton University Press

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Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

Barrett Wendell

Writing, Revision, Paragraph

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The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.

Elihu Thomson

Mother, Art, Memories

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Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.

Bertrand Russell

Men, Fire, Feelings

Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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