Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

We will never have 100 percent certainty except in hindsight.

Predicting the future is very difficult. As a historian I have trouble trying to predict the past.

When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable.

I never have plans for the future as you never know how things will turn out.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

You never know about life.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you?

You can never predict what the specific shape of your life is going to be, and you won't really know its general shape until, God willing, you're advanced in years and you have the time and opportunity to look back in a coherent way and see what your life was about.

I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.

I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.