Famous quotes containing the word prophetic:
“But though Heaven made him poor, with reverence speaking,
He never was a poet of Gods making;
The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull,
With this prophetic blessingBe thou dull;”
—John Dryden (16311700)
“Talk of Columbus and Newton! I tell you the child just born in yonder hovel is the beginning of a revolution as great as theirs. But you must have the believing and prophetic eye.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
—Plato (c. 427347 B.C.)
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