Foretell Quotes
44 quotes by 43 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
— Roger L'Estrange
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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
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We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.
— Craig D. Idso
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special…
— Hippocrates
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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
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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
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
— Jose Rizal
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If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.
— Robert Heilbroner
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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
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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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