S. Jay Olshansky

The field of ageing research is full of characters. We have hucksters claiming that cures for ageing can be bought and sold; prophetic seers, their hands extended for money, warning that immortality is nigh; and would-be Nobelists working methodically in laboratories in search of a pill to slow ageing.

American Scientist

Jean Rostand

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

French Scientist

Paul Theroux

I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.

American Novelist

Petrarch

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.

Italian Poet

Ari Graynor

There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts. I have to start keeping a journal of rough drafts of prophetic ideas about the world.

American Actress

Alveda King

My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and said that he had a dream and saw me perfectly. He was a prophetic dreamer, like Martin.

American Clergyman

Lord Byron

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

British Poet

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

American Leader

John Mason Brown

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!

American Critic

Gordon B. Hinckley

Often used in religious contexts, implying revelation or divine truth.

Biblical Connection

Can describe intuitive insights, not just religious predictions.

Metaphoric Usage

Used to praise visionary works in art, music, or literature.

Artistic Expression

Prophetic statements can predict bad outcomes like warnings.

Not Always Positive

Refers to predictions based on facts, trends, or careful analysis.

Beyond Intuition

Can describe someone understanding the consequences of current actions.

Not Just Future

 jeselsohn stone named for respected antiquities collector david jeselsohn has recently surfaced I don't have anything like it of such a long prophetic biblical inscription from that time on stone the jeselsohn stone threatens to destroy the claim that christ's crucifixion and resurrection

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 She made it to the States, and she became a teacher, an award-winning author and a mother, and ended up sending her daughters to Harvard. And these days, you can tell that she is amply comfortable holding court in the most powerful institutions in the world. It seems almost too prophetic

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 Malory couldn’t have known how prophetic this inscription would turn out to be. King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along with his retinue of knights, Guinevere, the Round Table, Camelot, and of course, Excalibur.

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 how have I frighted thee?" Shakespeare again, from -- I won't say it -- the Scottish play. From the same "Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together." Extremely prophetic, by Thomas Dekker, another Elizabethan dramatist.

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 She said, "You're like the worst vulnerability role model ever." Then I looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic, but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic.

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 of the end of days the end of days the apocalypse it's a prophetic book it's got loads of symbolism but it's also very much a political book and making a political claim about the cause of evil

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 that so is capable of distorting and amplifying the sensory experience that we call pain. So I have hope that in the future, the prophetic words of George Carlin will be realized, who said, "My

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 looked at her and I said something that at the time felt a little dramatic but ended up being more prophetic than dramatic I said if five hundred turns into a thousand our two thousand my life

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 So I thank you for having the prophetic imagination to imagine the shaping of a new world with us together, and invite you into this journey with us. Thank you.

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 experience that we call pain so that I have hope that in the future the prophetic words of George Carlin will be realized who said my philosophy no pain no pain