Quotes: Prophecy

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

I don’t want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society… these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.