Definition of Foresight

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Foresight

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.

Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.

Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.

Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.

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Foresight Quotations

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
John Lennon

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Fear is the mother of foresight.
Thomas Hardy

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

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Edward Koch

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
Victor Cherbuliez

Foresight Translations

foresight in German is Voraussicht
foresight in Italian is previsione, precauzione
foresight in Latin is prudentia

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