Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

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

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

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

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

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.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

I think there's a knowingness in my face.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

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.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

When you have watched someone long enough, you know what they can do.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

The best vision is insight.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.