Prophetic Knowledge

Famous quotes containing the words prophetic knowledge, prophetic and/or knowledge:

“The legislator must be in advance of his age.
Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“Scenes must be beautiful, which, daily viewed,
Please daily, and whose novelty survives
Long knowledge and the scrutiny of years—”
—William Cowper (1731–1800)