Quotes About Prediction

The world may end later than the year 2060, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit. —Sir Isaac Newton

Fortune Telling. You make arbitrary and disturbing predictions about the future. It's as if you had a crystal ball that only gives you bad news!

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

If all you're going to do is talk in riddles, why bother with it at all? Why go to all the trouble of saying things that nobody's able to understand?" "Because it's necessary to say it. The word determines the event. The word puts limits on the event and shapes it. Without the word, the event is merely a random happening. That's the whole purpose of what you call prophecy—to separate the significant from the random.

Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless.

Le persone muoiono dalla voglia che qualcuno gli predica il futuro e tu li rincuori. Che diamine, dai loro qualcosa da desiderare e in cui sperare. È quel che fanno i predicatori la domenica. Tra essere un'indovina e un predicatore, la differenza è poca, per come la vedo io.

If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

o, never shall sun that morrow see

Tis hatched and shall be so

Kind sir, give me a good fortune. Fortuneteller: I don't make fortunes; I only see them. Charmian: Then see a good one for me. Fortuneteller: Your beauty will be even greater than it is now. Charmian (to the others) He means I'll get fat. Iras No, he means you'll use makeup when you're old. Fortuneteller: You will love more than you are loved. Charmian: I had rather heat my liver with drinking.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

If Independence is granted to India, power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw. They will have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power and India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air and water would be taxed in India.

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: "This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.

By this time next year we shall know whether the Prime Minister's view of Herr Hitler and the German Nazi Party is right or wrong. By this time next year we shall know whether the policy of appeasement has appeased, or whether it has only stimulated a more ferocious appetite.

Yo sostenía que nuestro margen en barcos de línea, a los que había que añadir los cuatro acorazados del nuevo programa, nos aseguraría una adecuada superioridad para 1912, el llamado, por aquel entonces, «año peligroso».

Dicen que es ciego. ¿Ciego? Tiene el ojo certero del francotirador y él, sólo él, mira al futuro confiado.

Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right.

Mmm....she's doomed! You're doomed!! They're all doomed! Notice I didn't specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, I predicted it. How very WISE of me.

declares, "I alone know the end from the beginning" (Isa. 46:10).His message includes history written in advance. We call this prophecy.

We tend to assume linearity: that tomorrow will be like yesterday; that next week will resemble last week; next year be like last year, and so on. Linear extrapolations, however, can be blinders.

precisely seventy years after the captivity began, just as Jeremiah had predicted. The foundations of the second temple were laid by the spring of 536 BC.