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When you go to buy, use your eyes not your ears.
-Proverb
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
-Louisa May Alcott
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Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
-Charles L. Allen
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Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.
-Hannah Arendt
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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
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No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high.
-Harriet Du Autermont
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No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
-James Baldwin
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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
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Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
-Joel A. Barker
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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
-Joel A. Barker
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Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
-Jean Baudrillard
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He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.
-Walter Benjamin
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Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18
-Bible
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PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.
-Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
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Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
-Josh Billings
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
-William Blake
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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
-William Blake
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-Neils Bohr
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We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
-Omar Bradley
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Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.
-Dorothea Brande
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You have to think big to be big.
-Claude M. Bristol
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
-James Broughton
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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
-Les Brown
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You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
-Harry Browne
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The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.
-Emma Carleton
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Books about Prophecy
