Quotes about Prediction

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.

Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.

Because I carried the war in me, I foresaw it.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

Everyone is wrong about the future.

The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

The tragedy of the human species is it has evolved the capacity of foresight, but refuses to use it.

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.

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.

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.