Quotes About Soothsayers

#1. The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Essentially, almost all humans are born with a fear of the unknown. It casts a pall of anxiety which pushes us into the arms of religions and soothsayers and their made-up answers.

Mario Stinger

#4. Our present addiction to pollsters and forecasters is a symptom of our chronic uncertainty about the future ... We watch our experts read the entrails of statistical tables and graphs the way the ancients watched their soothsayers read the entrails of a chicken.

Eric Hoffer

#5. Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.

Jasper Fforde

#6. I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. The greatest Enemies of the Equity investor are Expenses and Emotions.

Warren Buffett

#8. If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

Fernando Pessoa

#9. You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

John Sayles