Quotes About Prediction

A fatal penalty awaits those who always look on the dark side of everything, who are always predicting evil and failure, who see only the seamy, disagreeable side of life. They draw upon themselves what they see, what they look for.

We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;

Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

A broken clock is right two times a day.

You have to think ahead, the next move, the next move, the next move, to see where it's all going to lead.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next.

There's never enough information...That's the great tragedy of human knowledge. No matter how much we think we know, we can never predict the future.

It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn't hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

No matter how well you know what a person has done and what he thought he was doing when he did it and what he now thinks of what he did, it is impossible to be certain of what he will do next. Yet

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

Most people, if you describe a train of events to them will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically.

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Tzu-chang[21] asked whether we can know what is to be ten generations hence. The Master said, The Yin[22] took over the manners of the Hsia; the harm and the good that they did them can be known. The Chou took over the manners of the Yin; the harm and the good that they did them can be known. And we may know what shall be, even an hundred generations hence, whoever follows Chou.

None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does.

The simplest undertaking is predicated upon a future that has no warrant.

To know what will come is the same as to make it so.

The drought didnt know when the last one was and nobody knew when the next one was coming.

Uno nunca sabe qué cosas pone en marcha, dijo. Nadie puede saberlo. No hay profeta capaz de predecirlo. Las consecuencias de una acción son a menudo bastante distintas de lo que uno pensaba. Asegúrese de que lo que le mueve en el fondo del corazón es lo bastante grande como para contener todos los virajes equivocados, todas las decepciones. ¿Ve usted? No todo tiene ese valor.

it might be well to remind ourselves that you cant misrepresent what has yet to occur.

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination.

I think you have to be a mathematician to appreciate how full of shit economists are, how astrological their equations are.

believe our civilization is going to collapse,' said Aunt Eva. `And what will come after it?' asked Clifford. `I haven't the faintest idea, but something, I suppose,' said the elderly lady.

They all began to guess.