#prophets

Prophets borrow the omniscience of God to speak with the insolence of angels. But we are only impressed with their authority when they talk to us humbly, as men of inferior rank. ↗

— Bauvard

#authority #god #prophets #men

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#call #desert #driven #false #honored

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#disappears #like #most #other #prediction

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

#contemptible #i #look #man #men

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #lose #more #never #occasion

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#die #fear #instead #make #many

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#burns #evil #fire #lips #our

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#first #make #prophets #sure #wisest

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#many #messiah #promise #prophets #science

Jesters do often prove prophets. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#prophets #prove