Prophecy Quotes
A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'-Paul Watzlawick
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.-Walter Lippmann
America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.-Ralph Ellison
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.-Muhammad Iqbal
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.-James Allen
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.-James Lane Allen
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.-Ruth Hubbard
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.-Alphonse de Lamartine
I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.-Michelangelo Antonioni
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.-George Murray
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.-Muhammad Iqbal
If you are an antichrist, you won't believe in the bible prophecy from the beginning. Which means, you won't believe that physical immortality will become possible.-Alex Chiu
In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.-Herbert Simon
Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.-Jerry B. Jenkins
My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.-Richard John Neuhaus
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.-George Gissing
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.-Benjamin Cardozo
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.-Neil Armstrong
The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.-Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.-John Ruskin
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.-Joel A. Barker
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.-John Ruskin
Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.-George Noory
Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.-Brian Tracy
Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.-John Foxe
You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.-Tim LaHaye
Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.-Richard Le Gallienne