It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
The fact that laws were given to man, both affirmative and negative, supports the principle, that God's knowledge of future events does… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
It is not enough for [the investor] to know all the factors that can possibly contribute to the determination of a future… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The considerations upon which expectations of prospective yields are based are partly existing facts which we can assume to be known more… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
"Risk means more things can happen than will happen." It is not standard deviation. It is not variability. It is this sense… — Elroy Dimson Copy Share Image
A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“If beings with a head, two arms and two legs evolved ten million years before us, then they permanently affected the morphogenetic… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I… — John Key Copy Share Image
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they… — William Greider Copy Share Image
It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Our paradigm now seems to be: Something terrible happened to us on September 11, and that gives us the right to interpret… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image