Prophecy Quotes

"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."
-Benjamin Cardozo

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."
-James Allen

"Success is a self-fulfilling prophecy."
-H. H. Swami Tejomayananda

"The biggest peril the over-55s face is discouragement. Don't let this become a self-fulfilling prophecy - it's just an extra four weeks."
-Richard Bayer

"Funds are still keen, with the end of the month likely to bring even more money to commodities due to the good performance they've had during January. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy at the moment."
-Robin Bhar

"It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We told them that these things would happen. It's frustrating."
-Karen Woodall

"This tends to create a self-fulfilling prophecy."
-John Lister

"The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future."
-Joel Barker

"Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides."
-Ruth Hubbard

"Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"If someone is told from the time they are a child that they can't learn or they are stupid, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy."
-Debra Conner

"PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery."
-Ambrose Bierce

"Years ago, Channel Seven said they couldn't put it on because it just wouldn't work and it was a self-fulfilling prophecy."
-Michael Bowers

"Sectarianism has become a self-fulfilling prophecy."
-Rosemary Hollis

"That sends a huge message to the students in districts that are not performing. It inflicts a self-fulfilling prophecy on those districts motivationally."
-Cheryl Durwin

"I don't like to be the go-to expert on biblical prophecy."
-Kirk Cameron

"Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event."
-George Gissing

"Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10."
-Neil Armstrong