Quotes about Prediction
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.
— George Eliot
Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.
— Carl Jung
How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!
— Teresa of Avila
If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says
— Andy Stanley
Everyone is wrong about the future.
— Milan Kundera
The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
— Brian Tracy
The tragedy of the human species is it has evolved the capacity of foresight, but refuses to use it.
— Carl Sagan
As ages passed, people learned from their ancestors. The more accurately you knew the position and movements of the Sun and Moon and stars, the more reliably you could predict when to hunt, when to sow and reap, when to gather the tribes. As precision of measurement improved, records had to be kept, so astronomy encouraged observation and mathematics and the development of writing.
— Carl Sagan
I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
— Madeleine Albright
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
— Marcus Aurelius
Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.
— Ayn Rand
No man can predict the time when others will choose to return to reason.
— Ayn Rand