Michael Oren Quotes

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

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Predictions are so often, so wrong ... The future is just too complicated.

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 further backward we look, the further forward we are likely to see.

Predictions are hard, especially about the future.

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

We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.

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

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

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I don’t like trying to predict the future. I am a historian. I have enough trouble predicting the past.

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.

Forecasting will always be somewhat of a coin toss.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

Trying to predict the future is a loser's game.

Nobody knows the future.

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

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

I can't predict the future.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.