Fortune Teller Quotes

• He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.

  Walter Benjamin

  Fate, Men, Hands

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

  Karl Kraus

  Newspapers, Fortune, Metaphysics

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I always prefer to work in the studio. It isolates people from their environment. They become in a sense... symbolic of themselves. I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Doctors, People

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• Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stones, Fortune

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.376, Random House

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• Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.

  Terry Pratchett

  Ordinary, Want, Witch

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)”, p.2, Random House

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• Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

  Jason Fried

  Long, Planning, Fantasy

  David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.19, Random House

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• The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.

  Ryan Ross

  Prison, Fortune, Mediums

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• Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

  Arthur Golden

  Destiny, Men, Needs

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• Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.

  Amish Tripathi

  Men, Legends, Amish

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• He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

  Walter Benjamin

  Events, Dexterity, May

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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• To me there’s no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They’re all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Real, Humor

  "Woody Allen on Faith, Fortune Tellers and New York". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2010.

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• I'm excited about what the future holds. I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, "What are you going to do?" I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Play, Ideas, Knowing

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• Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Disease, Able, Treats

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.418, e-artnow

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• Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.

  Raven Grimassi

  Art, Blood, Rose

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• I went to a shrink once, but I caught him going to a fortune-teller so I quit.

  James Caan

  Quitting, Fortune, Caught

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• Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off.
  So do fundamentalists.

  Ed Seykota

  People, Want, Fortune

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• What fortune teller would ever have had the nerve to predict that the best years of my life would turn out to be my old age?

  Helene Hanff

  Years, Age, Nerves

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• Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the bakery or the fortune-teller's, only to know that one might. A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Cities, Imagination, Quality

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.133, Penguin

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• My grandfather was a faith healer and medium and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.

  Luke Goss

  Believe, Grandfather, Unseen

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2008.

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• Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Drinking, Mountain, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.110

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• We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Looks, Investing

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic—” “Don’t try,” Waxillium said. “Logic doesn’t work on Wayne.” “I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller,” Wayne explained. “It lets me add two ’n’ two and get a pickle.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Gun, Men, Two

  Brandon Sanderson (2018). “Mistborn: The Wax and Wayne Series: (Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning)”, p.307, Tor Books

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• Of course you want someone special to love you. A majority of the people who write to me inquire about how they can get the same thing... Unique as every letter is, the point each writer reaches is the same: I want love and I'm afraid I'll never get it. It's hard to answer those letters because I'm an advice columnist, not a fortune-teller. I have words instead of a crystal ball. I can't say when you'll get love or how you'll find it or even promise that you will. I can only say you are worthy of it and that it's never too much to ask for it.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Love You, Writing, Unique

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• Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Growing Up, Character

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• We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

  Warren Buffett

  Children, Believe, Long

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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