#prophet

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ↗

— Karl Popper

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People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country. ↗

— Sun Ra

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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I am not a prophet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. ↗

— Philip Schaff

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The historian is a prophet looking backward. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

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In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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