Quotes About Prediction

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future.

We must shed the illusion that we can deliberately 'create the future of mankind'

Astrologers that future fates foreshow.

Only lie about the future.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present.

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Knowing the future is the flower of the Way, and the beginning of folly.

Forecasts are difficult to make-particularly those about the future.

Never make forecasts, especially about future.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do.

The future is uncertain, and therefore I can't predict it.

I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

History is rooted in the future