Foresight may refer to:
- Foresight (psychology), ability to predict or plan for the future
- Foresight (management), management planning principle
- Foresight (futures studies), European planning mechanism for public policy
- Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology
- Foresight Linux, computer operating system
- Chanting the Light of Foresight, a 1987 saxophone composition by Terry Riley
- HMS Foresight (H68), a Royal Navy F class destroyer during World War II
- Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting, a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters.
Famous quotes containing the word foresight:
“In Arms not worse, in foresight much advanc’t,
We may with more successful hope resolve
To wage by force or guile eternal Warr
Irreconcileable, to our grand Foe,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“The foresight that awaits
Is the same Genius that creates.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the Atlantic, and herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)