John Jay Chapman Quotes

I am not a prophet.

A wise man is better than a prophet.

I do believe in prophecy.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Indeed, the hereditary gift of prophecy will go to the grave with me.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.

I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

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

The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

Your shallow men shall dream, dreams, your insightful men shall see visions.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.

I've had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven't been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I'm sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn't be as fearful.

The best vision is insight.