Quotes About Prediction

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Anyone can be a prophet. You just have to say that what you're talking about is a reflection of God. Or of the gods. Or of some divine spirit. However you want to put it. Whether those things come true isn't one way or another about it.

He always tell what it will be like someday. Well, a man's mind can't stay in time the way his body does.

In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen.

Some people exude their futures, good or bad.

she spoke as if the future were a hypothetical problem to be solved.

When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

No, I might not know what's coming, but I know where you're going.

I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my uncles are all City season ticket holders. So I'm gonna say 5-0 to United!

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets.

Fear is prophetical of evil.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

A danger foreseen is half avoided.

Any sage will tell you the secret to longevity is to outlive your predictions and see them to fruition. You cannot gloat from the grave.

Don't let whats coming stop you from going on forward, why let that which has already been proven, ruin your future? That which has not yet been foretold.

That moment when you give someone advice, they don't listen to you, then you sit back and watch everything you predicted happen.

When you heard anyone in the middle of a talk which was being deliberately kept off the Affair announce furtively some piece of political news, generally false but always devoutly to be wished, you could induce from the nature of his predictions where his heart lay.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowledge, and our words which we suppose to be false forecast an imminent reality.

I wish that one of us had been endowed with some mystical gift of prescience that would have warned us off this train wreck. But you make your decision with the best information you have at the time.

The election of a Latin American pope should happen sometime in the next hundred years."20

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming, 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well, it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.