Berthold Auerbach Quotes

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

I can't predict the future.

It’s very hard to predict the weather. Predicting human affairs is very difficult.

There are two kinds of economists in the world. Those who don't know the future and those who don't know that they don't know the future.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

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

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

It's difficult to talk about the future because you never know.

Nobody knows what will happen in the future.

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

No one knows anything for sure.

Prediction is difficult - particularly when it involves the future.

All the skills which I have acquired during my sociological life allow me to diagnose and explain what is going on, but not to predict what will happen.

I am not a prophet; I cannot predict what will happen.

One shouldn't know the future.

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

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.

I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.