David Hume Quotes

Predictions are preposterous.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

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

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.

Prediction is difficult - particularly 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.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

Nobody can see into the future. Nobody knows what going to go on.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.

I can't predict the future.

You can never plan the future by the past.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

I never predict anything, and I never will.