Quotes About Foreknowledge

I always know the ending; that's where I start.

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Can our morrows be foretold?" he repeated slowly. "Mayhaps. There are certain spells in the old books … but Your Grace might ask instead, 'Should our morrows be foretold?

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

wisdom ain't seeing what's in your face, but recognizing what's about to come!

I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.

Then, I didn't know that our bodies can know things before they happen, so when my eyes suddenly filled with tears, I thought this was the unpredictable effect of emotion.

Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible for me to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future, including telling others what I know: those who know the future don't talk about it. Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.

I have always known a thing before it happens.

This Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

David," Magic Johnson said in the eighties, "has this unbelievable gift for seeing around the corner before anyone else.

We are never prepared for what we expect

It's funny about people. Just before something happens, you almost know what it is. You do know what it is, I believe. You just haven't had the time—and now you won't have the time—to say it to yourself.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

He who has foresight has more than two eyes.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

God foreknows the use of free will, yet this foreknowledge does not determine events. Rather, what God foreknows is determined by what happens, part of which is affected by free will.

The fact they could check becomes the prophecy they must believe.

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

I had long ago learned, sometimes to my sorrow, that Scottish piety is accompanied by a complete foreknowledge of sin. That's what we mean by original sin—we don't have to do it to know about it.

If you know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow, the voltage of that experience is immediately mitigated.

He can't live with knowing the future and not being able to save anyone.

He can't live with know­ing the fu­ture and not be­ing able to save any­one.