Nikola Tesla Quotes

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

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I never predict anything, and I never will.

You don't know for sure why things happen, but you know, it did! It was my time to go on the show and I'm excited to see what my future holds.

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

We will never have 100 percent certainty except in hindsight.

I only remember the future.

Vengeance is not necessarily successful because wrong has been done, or strength sure because it is confident; but the incalculable element in the future has the widest influence, and is the most treacherous, and yet in fact the most useful of all things, as it frightens us all equally, and thus makes us consider before attacking each other.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

The experts, for all their superior knowledge, rarely do better than chance in predicting future events.

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

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

There is no formula that will guarantee success in forecasting, no magic words that will part the clouds. The real problem, as the old saw puts it, is that the future lies ahead.

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

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

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

My track record is pretty good on predictions.

You have to make smart decisions, but you never know what will happen in the future.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Can you picture my prophecy?

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

You never know if anything is going to stand the test of time or going to be successful.

I'm like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.