Foretell Quotes

44 quotes by 43 authors

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far… — Albert Camus
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. — Willa Cather
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability… — Winston Churchill
Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and… — William Hazlitt
The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to… — William Whewell
Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious… — Brigit of Kildare
No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell… — Ludwig von Mises
Till facts be grouped and called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen and to… — Charles Darwin
Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars,… — Lyman Spitzer
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves. — Roger L'Estrange
As everyone knows, the ancients before Aristotle did not consider the dream a product of the dreaming mind, but a divine inspiration, and in ancient… — Sigmund Freud
We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future. — Craig D. Idso
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future â€” must mediate these things, and have two special… — Hippocrates
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future. But surely… — Laurence Binyon
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past. — Jose Rizal
If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future. — Robert Heilbroner
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us… — Carl L. Becker
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be… — Henry David Thoreau

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