Quotes About Prediction

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now.

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Prediction is a very difficult business, particularly about the future

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

It's always difficult to make predictions about the future.

And if our future Lies on the final line Are we brave enough To see the signals and the signs?

The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

One of my biggest superstitions is to never speak about the future out loud. Lets just say I got a lot out there and I hope to keep on going.

We can influence the future but not see it.

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

I don't turn Britney Spears into a star. I have to spot that these people are going to be stars, in the future, and say, "Okay, these guys have cultural validity and they're going to pop."

I am not Nostradamus.Nor would I want to be. I'm convinced being able to tell the future is the worst superpower. I'd rather be invisible and being invisible never ends well. Just read H. G. Wells!

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

I've seen the future and it's murder.

I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.

I'm with the spirit of Earth-Day-yet-to-come. Nobody can really predict the future, all you can do is look at trends, and that could change at any moment.

People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.

You can't hide secrets from the future with math.