Evan Esar Quotes

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

I think the best thing about my game is my vision. I see things happen before they do.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

The best vision is insight.

My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

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

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

The world values the seer above all men

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Any 6 year old’s hindsight is better than a President’s foresight.