Quotes about Prediction
You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.
— Tim LaHaye
And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom.
— Euripides
All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it.
— Alice Hoffman
She takes the fortune cookies from the bottom of the bag and throws them into a glass bowl she keeps in the closet. She has no desire to know what her future might hold.
— Alice Hoffman
Or maybe he should always just expect the worst. Most often he would be right, and the few times he was not, at least he would be pleasantly surprised.
— Joel Rosenberg
Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
— Muhammad Ali
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
— Frank Herbert
The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.
— Frank Herbert
I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
— Frank Herbert
I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.
— Frank Herbert
If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.
— Frank Herbert
We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?
— Frank Herbert