Prevision Quotes

Foresight is an imperfect thing - all prevision in economics is imperfect.

The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave.