The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
Interpretation
The accuracy of my predictions will be revealed over time.
This quote by Nikola Tesla reflects the idea that one's foresight and judgment may not be immediately validated, but the truth of those predictions will become clear in the future. It emphasizes the importance of patience and the eventual revelation of outcomes based on our current insights and analyses.
In practice
In a discussion about future innovations, one might say this quote to express confidence in their vision.
Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War.
I am unwilling to accord to some small−minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.
I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes.
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