Top 26 Quotes About Fortune Tellers
#1. Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.
Amish Tripathi
#2. They say a basis in fact underlies most legends. They say it all the time, all those Wise Elders in all those old horror films, the high priests, the scientists, the gypsy fortune tellers. On this single issue they agree unanimously.
Robert Dunbar
#3. Fortune tellers live in the future. So do people who want to put things off.
So do fundamentalists.
Ed Seykota
#4. Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.
Stella Young
#5. Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what's going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.
Terry Pratchett
#6. Everybody thinks they're a prophet. They must, or nobody would get married. Or maybe at a 50% divorce rate, only half the people are fortune tellers. Probably the men.
Jarod Kintz
#7. Thus the 'fortune-teller' is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is characteristic of all forms of foreseeing. And precisely because what they 'see' is so vague, it is hard to repudiate fortune-tellers' claims.
Jostein Gaarder
#8. We have long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune-tellers look good.
Warren Buffett
#9. Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
George Bernard Shaw
#10. Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#11. My grandfather was a faith healer and medium, and he always encouraged faith in the unseen. I believe in fortune tellers.
Luke Goss
#12. He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.
Walter Benjamin
#13. Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
Karl Kraus
#14. Science fiction writers aren't fortune tellers. Fortune tellers are fakes.
William Gibson
#15. Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry.
Adam McKay
#16. A very important function of intelligence is the ability to premeditate. ~ Aarush Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#17. There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
Jeff Greenfield
#18. Human resources could be purchased and sold but not time.
Sunday Adelaja
#19. I don't look for good-news stories or bad-news stories.
Richard Engel
#21. It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we mean, what is the fundamental thing that's given us space in the first place and dimensions of space in particular.
Lisa Randall
#22. Zoya stared up at Nina in wonder. "You're alive," she said. Her gaze slid to Matthias, thrashing like the biggest, angriest butterfly ever pinned to a page. "And you've made a new friend.
Leigh Bardugo
#24. Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters.
J.R. Moehringer
#25. This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations.
Kay Koplovitz
#26. Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.
B.K.S. Iyengar
