Quotes About Prediction

Belief is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The only thing predictable about you is that you consistently appear when you suppose I least expect it. Perhaps that will be your undoing; for now I shall expect to see you every time I turn around.

Frank pitied anyone naïve enough to believe they could predict with certainty how another human being would act.

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man?

This is the story of Dr. J., the mass murderer of Steinhof. How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we may even try to predict the mechanisms or dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we may even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to a whole group; the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we may even try to predict the mechanisms of dynamisms of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Neste mundo não existe estabilidade. Quem será capaz de exprimir o significado das coisas? Quem pode prever o voo que uma palavra descreve depois de dita? É um balão que plana sobre as árvores. E o esforço de conhecer é sempre inútil. Tudo é experiência e aventura. Constantemente formamos novas combinações de elementos desconhecidos. O que está para vir?

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend?

We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.

In its published form, this book is being read, I assume, in the first years of 2000 A.D. (1935 plus eighty or ninety, live long, my love)...

La mujer barbuda nos lee las manos y predice lo que seremos, aunque no adivina lo que somos.

She wrote poetry. She was poetically superstitious. She said she knew she would die soon after my sixteenth birthday, and did.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Mira's never wrong. Whatever she showed you tonight, it's fated to be." "Fated", he said, sounding amused by that. "Well, shit. Then I guess we're doomed.

You have found your destiny, Gabrielle. Just like I said you would. I never told you it would be with me. ~ Lucan

Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.

Well, kid, I have seen the future and it shits.

Dirmit looked at the spot left by her mother's finger. Then she ran her eyes across the four walls and counted all the marks that had been stamped there to predict that they would be abandoned, they would go mad, they would be left to starve without a roof over their heads, or they would fall into evil ways. 'We've made so many markes for one another!' she reflected. Then she got up and started to scratch off all the spots.

The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.

Da Costa was explicit about the dire consequences that would befall the two

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.