(174 quotes found)
“Jesters do oft prove prophets”
William Shakespeare
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves”
Bible
“The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.”
Bill Vaughn
“The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Hence it comes about that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“The educational system of a country is worthless unless it [revolutionizes the social order]. Men of scholarship, and prophetic insight, must show us the right way and lead us into light which is shining brighter and brighter.”
Carter G. Woodson
“Now the acts of Rehoboam, first and last, are they not written in the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the seer concerning genealogies? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.”
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! / Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.”
“And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, / The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, / To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”
“A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.”
Winston Churchill
