Prophecy Quotes

Prophecy Quote of the day

All sciences originated among the sons of Israel, the reason being the existence of prophecy among them which made their perfection in the sciences amazing.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

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.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.

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.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

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.'

Loving and energizing others is the best possible thing we can do for ourselves.

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

I bring good tidings to our beloved Prophet Muhammad: Allah's promise and the Prophet's prophecy of our victory in Palestine over the Jews and over the oppressive Zionists has begun to come true.

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

The universe is energy, energy that responds to our expectations.

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

The existing confusion of conflicting creeds and sects is fitly represented by the term "Babylon," which prophecy (Revelation 14:8) applies to the world-loving churches of the last days.

It was almost as if I had a right to win. Thinking like that often seems to turn into sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

In Him (God), history and prophecy are one and the same.

Can you picture my prophecy?

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Nostradamus himself confessed that the vague manner in which he wrote his "prophecies" was so that 'they could not possibly be understood until they were interpreted after the event and by it.'

Your destiny grows clearer, Jason Grace. When the choice comes again- storm or fire- remember me. And do not despair.

The falling leaf that tells of autumn's death is, in a subtler sense, a prophecy of spring.

Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.

Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet.

[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

[Optimism] acts as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy - onless ye know.

History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought.

I think God loves to speak to us prophetically, because there are a number of things which happen when you receive a prophecy.

The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

Revelation isn't just end time's prophecy, it's God showing off his Son and his glory and honoring us, his treasured bride, with a seat at his table forever!

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

Pessimism is not only unwarranted, it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think the cause is lost, it will be. No one works hard for a cause they think will lose.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.