Prophecy Quotes - Page 8

• Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Routine, Physics, Accurate

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• All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander or Ghengis Khan had never been born, some other individual would have filled his place and executed the design of the Hellenic or Mongolic expansion; but the Alexanders of philosophy and religion, of science and art, seem less expendable; their impact seems less determined by economic challenges and social pressures; and they seem to have a much wider range of possibilities to influence the direction, shape and texture of civilizations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Art, Philosophy, Past

  "The Sleepwalkeers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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• This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Spring, Winter, Years

  Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.357, Everyman's Library

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• From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Long, Soul, World

  Desiderius Erasmus (2016). “In Praise of Folly”, p.85, Desiderius Erasmus

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• My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self fulfilling prophecy?

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, Self, Library

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Communism, Made

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.277, Knopf

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• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .

  Thomas Hobbes

  Taken, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• [The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Air, Voice, Giving

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.741, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Men, Literature, Heirs

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• The Book of Revelation, difficult as it may be for "literalists," becomes much simpler when we read it typologically, as a mosiac of allusions to Old Testament prophecy.

  Northrop Frye

  Book, May, Old Testament

  "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.

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• I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

  Northrop Frye

  Egypt, Law, Israel

  Northrop Frye, Alvin A. Lee (2006). “The Great Code: The Bible and Literature”, p.126, University of Toronto Press

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• I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.

  Vance Havner

  Winning, Men, Feet

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.62, Solid Christian Books

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• OUR ORDINATION: Sir Isaac Newton, 1642 – 1747 About the times of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Attention, Body

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• The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt.
  The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Design, Curiosity

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• Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Class, Sometimes, Failing

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.23

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• Under the sublime law of progress, the present outgrows the past. The great heart of humanity is heaving with the hopes of a brighter day. All the higher instincts of our nature prophesy its approach; and the best intellects of the race are struggling to turn that prophecy into fulfilment.

  Horace Mann

  Struggle, Heart, Past

  Horace Mann (1895). “Helps to Self-culture”

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• Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.

  Carlos Barrios

  Writing, Names, People

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• Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this era is action.

  Carlos Barrios

  Spiritual, Opportunity, Games

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• Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure and vague. The hunger of the heart finds only a few small and scattered crumbs. There is nothing definite, solid, and satisfying. United with the idea of immortality we find the absurdity of the resurrection. A prophecy that depends for its fulfillment upon an impossibility, cannot satisfy the brain or heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Heart, Ideas, Brain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• The Elders would go forth, and each must stand for himself...to go in all meekness, in sobriety, and preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified; not to contend with others on account of their faith, or systems of religion, but pursue a steady course. This I delivered by way of commandment; and all who observe it not, will pull down persecution upon their heads, while those who do, shall always be filled with the Holy Ghost; this I pronounced as a prophecy, and sealed with hosanna and amen.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Sobriety, Missionary

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Funny, Motivational, Mean

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been mortally wounded. The future of the British people is to die of hunger and tuberculosis in their cursed island.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Islands, People

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 4, 1945), 1961.

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• Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song. They call it prophecy symbolising Christ's love for the Church. They think it nonsense and father some story upon it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Christian, Song, Jesus

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2610, Manonmani Publishers

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• Therefore, as a player, as a coach, even though we might have lost in a season or not won a championship, it was like a self-fulfilling prophecy that I'm going to win some time. I've never felt myself a loser.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Loss, Winning, Player

  "Duke of the Court". The Academy of Achievement Interveiw, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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