Diane Duane Quotes

Prophecy - To observe that which has passed, and guess it will happen again.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

I do believe in prophecy.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

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

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

I believe that we can 'sense' the future. We just haven't yet established the mechanism allowing it to happen.

Divining the future is a lot easier and cheaper than documenting the present.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I have a weird propensity to know what's going to happen in the future.

In spite of myself, I gave a snort. "Just once, I'd like to hear a simple, straightforward prophecy.

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery.

Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

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

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.