Quotes About Prediction

the only sure prediction in this whole world was you

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

She, Madame M for Mistake, could not predict the future — her own or anybody else's. She could not even predict one hour from now. Not one minute. Not one second. The future was un-predictable.

So Sophos thinks you're going to marry me. While I think you'll marry Sophos. I might. We'll see what he's like when he grows up.

Ah, said the magus, understanding at once. I see that he means to be prepared if he meets him again. Surely that's unlikely, said Sounis. I don't think unlikely means to him what it does to the rest of us, said the magus.

The sign seemed like her fortune, her horoscope, her Magic 8 Ball answer.

But no one can truly know how the game will play before the stones are laid upon the board

While a trend shown in the past is a fact, a "future trend" is only an assumption.

But make sure you remember this: The people who now claim that the next "sure thing" will be health care, or energy, or real estate, or gold, are no more likely to be right in the end than the hypesters of high tech turned out to be.

While it seems easy to foresee which industry will grow the fastest, that foresight has no real value if most other investors are already expecting the same thing.

Se você não tem como prever o comportamento dos mercados, precisa aprender a prever e controlar o seu próprio.

Security analysis does not assume that a past average will be repeated, but only that it supplies a rough index to what may be expected of the future. A trend, however, cannot be used as a rough index; it represents a definite prediction of either better or poorer results, and it must be either right or wrong.

The trend is, in fact, a statement of future prospects in the form of an exact prediction.

The future of security prices is never predictable. And as you read ahead in the book, notice how everything else Graham tells you is designed to help you grapple with that truth. Since you cannot predict the behavior of the markets, you must learn how to predict and control your own behavior.

Staying humble about your forecasting powers

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind.

Considering how calamitously wrong the experts have been on the stock market, why should we believe them now? That's not what the intelligent investor would do.

If you roll the dice often enough you always get the numbers you want. If I tell you the sun will shine tomorrow and that it will rain and there will be snow and that clouds will cover the sky and that wind will blow and that it will be a calm day and that thunder will deafen us, then one of those things will turn out to be true and you'll forget the rest because you want to believe that I really can tell the future.

Wyrd bið ful aræd.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd.

Wyrd bið ful ?ræd. The

I charge more for prophecy," Offa said, "on the grounds that what is worthless must be made expensive.

Wyrd bi ful aræd.

He says he's going to die. He's got a what do you call it? A premonition. He says it's because he's going to be married.' 'What's that got to do with it?' Price shrugged as if to demonstrate that he was no expert on superstitions. 'He says it's because he's happy. He reckons that the happiest die first and only the miserable buggers live for ever.