Quotes about Prediction
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
Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it.
— Charlie Munger
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
— Confucius
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.
— Corrie Ten Boom
I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.
— Lisa Wingate
Well, that's the problem with postulatin', Hannibal. Brings up trouble that ain't happened yet and likely won't ever. Why bother with it?
— Lisa Wingate
No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer
— Bill Gates
He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.
— Philip Yancey
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
— John Milton
We are all at times unconscious prophets.
— Charles Spurgeon
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
— JC Ryle