W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

One shouldn't know the future.

I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

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

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.

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

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

She sees things — things that might happen, things that are coming. But it’s very subjective. The future isn’t set in stone. Things change.

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 shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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

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

I'd love to know what the future looks like.

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

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

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

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.

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

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.