Quotes About Prediction

Mankind will discover objects in space sent to us by the watchers...

We totter now on a precipice, the ground shaking beneath us. Yet most of us still imagine that the future will resemble the past. That's a whopping mistake. New warning signs look clear and compelling.

I imagined the United States becoming, slowly, through the combined effects of lack of foresight and short-term unenlightened self-interest, a third world country.

What a methodology! It is tacitly assumed that people don't know themselves, but that if you furnish them with questions that are bright enough, they'll be able to figure themselves all out. They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer. And they'll inadvertently reveal to themselves that secret they know nothing of. And that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous—that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.

we must wait two hundred years for the next name of great magnitude; moreover

The only answer that Copernicus could give to this was that they might be difficult to see without extra powers of sight, but he ventured to predict that the phases would be seen if ever our powers of vision should be enhanced.

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment. When it is a question of the providential will of God, wait for God to move. Peter did not wait for God. He predicted in his own mind where the test would come, and it came where he did not expect it. "I will lay down my life for Your sake." Peter's statement was honest but ignorant.

Europe shall be the head, Asia the crown, but Africa shall be the jewel. "Another Prognostication by Theophrastus Paracelsus

Zack shook his head. "I am glad you aren't mine. You're going to be dead before you're forty." "No," rumbled my husband's soft deep voice from the hallway. "I'm going to be dead before she's forty.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

Knowing the future is part of that future's past. Perhaps the foreseen happens because we try to change it.

Prophecy is slippery, dangerous, open to fatal misinterpretation.

Life does not have to go how you think it will...Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.

And everything I might have been, the different futures I might have taken, all my different lives and deaths that existed in their endless possibilities were extinguished in a single repetition of her three words. "You will hunt." When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen? And all that might have been was long, long gone.

When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of the future do you then cause to happen?

Was it prediction? Had she had a proper vision? Or was it a command, as it so often feels in the case of the prophetic? When you predict the future, when you do so strongly and you cling to it, how much of that future do you then cause to happen?

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lightning's going to strike.