#foresee

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit. ↗

— Bodhidharma

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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

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One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences. ↗

— Raymond E. Feist

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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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