Quotes about Prediction

we can predict his future only within the large framework of a statistical survey referring to a whole group; the individual personality, however, remains essentially unpredictable

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

Nobody ever predicted, a week before President Sadat came to Jerusalem in 1977, that his arrival would be the beginning of a peace process that would end up in an - unhappy - Israeli-Egyptian peace. We have seen peace with Egypt. We have seen peace with Jordan. We have seen the handshake between Rabin and Arafat - things are possible.

As a man predicts ill, he becomes inclined to wish it. The pride of having his judgment right hardens his heart, till at last he beholds with satisfaction, or sees with disappointment, the accomplishment or failure of his predictions.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination.

I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.