End Quote by Sophocles

What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him.

— Sophocles

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

— Sophocles

I have not yet learned to live, that I can see, and I fear that I shall not very soon. I find, however, that…

— Henry David Thoreau

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

— Horace Walpole

“A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to…

— Megan McKenna

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

— Richard Sibbes

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds…

— Arthur Symons

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

“Prophecy can be defined as God’s revelation regarding history in advance. The backdrop is that only God—who is omniscient (or all-knowing)—knows the future.”

— Ron Rhodes

To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have…

— Coventry Patmore

Only the prophets see the obvious.

— Nelson Rodrigues

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg