Quotes of Prediction - somelinesforyou

“ Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ Most plans are just inaccurate predictions. ”

- Ben Bayol

“ The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ”

- Bill Vaughn

“ It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. ”

- James Allen

“ America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. ”

- Ralph Ellison

“ And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ”

- Bible

“ Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ I don't believe in the Prophecy. I haven't read it, and I won't, because it's wrong. I know. I'm in the Hall of Fame. ”

- Joe Morgan

“ Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. ”

- Bible

“ Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”

- George Eliot

“ Without speculation there is no good and original observation. ”

- Charles Darwin

“ Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10. ”

- Neil Armstrong

“ Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I think predictability has become the rule and I'm completely the opposite — I like spectators to be disturbed. ”

- Francoise Mallet Joris

“ No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening each time, for the first time, for the only time. ”

- James Baldwin

“ Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes… ”

- Bob Marley

“ If you look at the opportunities for economic growth within America, inner-city areas and rural areas, especially those that are heavily minority populated are a great opportunity for economic growth, because unemployment is high and the potential for consumer demand to grow is enormous… ”

- Bill Clinton

“ The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. ”

- John Ruskin

“ With high hopes for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature. ”

- Albert Einstein
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