Quotes About Prediction

If you want to know the future, look at the past.

So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.

The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved.

One way to pick a future is to believe it's inevitable.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).

The future is not Google-able.

Prediction is very hard, particularly when it's about the future.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

Never make bad predictions, especially about the futture.

The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

Although our eyes can not penetrate the darkness of the future, scientific geopolitical analysis enables us to make certain predictions.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

Making predictions is tough. Especially for the future.