Stephen Crane Quotes

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

The world values the seer above all men

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.

I am not a prophet.

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

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

Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.

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

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

I wonder that a prophet doesn’t laugh whenever he sees another prophet.

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

The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

I do believe in prophecy.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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

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

If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

Agnes was the worst prophet that's ever existed. Because she was always right. That's why the book never sold.

But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.

Canst thou prophesy, thou little tree, What the glory of thy boughs shall be?

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

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.