#predict

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#unpredictability #dreams

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confirmation #confirmed #creativity #error

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#past #regret #family

I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #insight #prediction #imagination

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#mice-men #planning #plans #unpredictability #men

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#children #going #inconsistency #know #never

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#predict #those #who

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!" ↗

— Bill Bradley

#cannot #common #enables #escape #imagination

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#exciting #i #interesting #limits #make