Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

I also believe that it is time to begin the fundamental analysis of how we got here, what led us here and what we need to do in order to ensure that we are equipped with the best possible intelligence as we face these issues in the future.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Our job is not to predict the future. Rather, it's to suggest all the possible futures - so that society can make informed decisions about where we want to go.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about these topics.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.

The best vision is insight.

Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.

The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.

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

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Nobody understands how the world will change. The only way you can plan for the future is to have scenarios. You have to have the courage to take a leap of faith on one of them.

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.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Every business needs to get out of their own mindset and into the aspirational mindsets of their customers and clients and create services and products that are beyond their customers' imagination but will be what they 'gotta have' in the future.

In times of uncertainty, employees crave clarity. As a leader, you won't always have all of the answers - no one expects you to - so you must be open to listening and learning from others. Once you understand a particular challenge and outline the options, you have to be confident in making bold and optimistic decisions.