Quotes about Prediction
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
— Mark Twain
One might as well attempt to calculate mathematically the contingent forms of the tinkling bits of glass in a kaleidoscope as to look through the tube of the future and foretell its pattern.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and then make our plans with confidence.
— Henry Ford
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
— Albert Einstein
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
— Dan Quayle
And Dan. 8:25 also writes concerning the Antichrist that he will kill the majority of people not through poverty but through an abundance of everything.
— Martin Luther
Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.
— Muhammad Ali
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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.
— Oswald Chambers
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
— Genesis 40:12
Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore your position. You will put Pharaoh’s cup in his hand, just as you did when you were his cupbearer.
— Genesis 40:13