Quotes About Prophecy

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

There was a desperate need about the way he moved, as if he was trying to rend the fabric of reality to pieces. He loved me, I realized. He loved me so much, and the wounds of Nexus had barely scabbed over. The prophecy had pushed him over the edge. He had to vent or it would tear him apart from the inside out.

A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.

if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted

Not all persons would be equally believed, Demerzel. A mathematician, however, who could back his prophecy with mathematical formulas and terminology, might be understood by no one and yet believed by everyone.

Yet, if there is the possibility of this satisfaction from accurate prophecy in science fiction, there is also the reverse. Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other form of fiction does. After all, if we may prove accurate in our predictions, we may prove inaccurate as well, sometimes ludicrously so.

The image of Hari Seldon reached into open air and the book once more appeared in his hand. He opened it and said: "But whatever devious course your future history may take, impress it always upon your descendants that the path has been marked out, and that at its end is a new and greater Empire!

Excellence, we have. Yet Seldon's science is known—only to Seldon. We ourselves have but faith.

La gitana sólo me auguró una larga vida, lo que siempre dicen por una moneda.

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.

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

The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

I'm so glad you're here," Aphrodite said. "War is coming. Bloodshed is inevitable. So there's really only one thing to do." "Uh... and that is?" Annabeth ventured. "Why, have tea and chat, obviously

But I feel convinced, and I venture even to prophesy in this regard, that the time will come when there will also be a minister of peace in the cabinet, seated beside the ministers of war.

Fly you high, Gregor the Overlander. Fly you high!

You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus. "Oh, I see," said Gregor. "So, when's he coming?" Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. "I believe he is already here.

Nothing like one of Sandwich's prophecies to put your whole world in perspective.

What can you guarentee, O Nostradamus of Hayward?" I carp.

It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way—a self-fulfilling prophecy.

It's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely you'll die that way---a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Its's not good to have fears like this. It only makes it more likely that you'll die that way--a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If I have the gift of the prophecy, and can fathom all mystery's and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.