L. Sprague de Camp Quotes

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Prophecy is what we all have to go by now.

I do believe in prophecy.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

I'm not keen on making predictions.

I am not a prophet.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

I'm not a fortune-teller.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

People think I'm some kind of prophet, but I'm not someone who gets my information from the ether. I've been given the coordinates about how things work.

Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.

I've certainly written a lot of things that have more or less come true. But I don't have a gift for prophecy.

The world values the seer above all men

We turn to experts to tell us the future, even though they have not the foggiest idea themselves. It is a practice that goes back thousands of years.

The pollsters are engaged in an ancient and primitive rite—trying to predict the future.