Quotes: Divinations

Believing is not always seeing

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Those who don't look forward remain behind.
Shallow men believe in luck . . . Strong men believe in cause and effect.
This is the kind of thing I wouldn't believe even if it were true.
There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural . . . . We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
A cheiromantist is a fortune-teller who palms herself off as a handreading expert or one who sees prosperity on every hand.
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present—only longer.
The most depressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.
I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.
The future isn't what it used to be.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.

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