Donald Trump Quotes

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

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

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

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

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.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

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

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

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

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

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.

I never quite trust futurists because I think they're kind of telling us what they think our future should be.

I do not like to talk about the future. I don't like to be one of those people. It's so easy to have a very vague idea and say, oh, computers will be 3D-ish and then 10 years later I'll say I predicted it 10 years ahead. I don't think that's honest and I don't think that's valid and worth anything.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.

He who would foresee what is to happen should look to what has happened: for all that is has its counterpart in time past.

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

I am, I fully grant, a phenomenon, but not because of any speed in composition. I asked myself the other day, "Who else, on so many issues, has been so right so much of the time?" I couldn't think of anyone.

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

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened.