Foreknowledge Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the…
— Steven Brust
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What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge.
— Sun Tzu
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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
— Sun Tzu
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Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is…
— Sun Tzu
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Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore,…
— J I Packer
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God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all…
— Jacobus Arminius
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In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd…
— John Milton
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The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined,…
— Quintus Tullius Cicero
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People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body…
— Aleister Crowley
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Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it,…
— Margaret Atwood
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And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck…
— Julian of Norwich
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the…
— William Styron
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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
— Raymond Aron
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... the general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain…
— John Knox
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God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the…
— Sheri L. Dew
Who Wrote These Foreknowledge Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Foreknowledge Quotes as follows: