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Prophet Quotes - Page 4

I want to be prophetic and take stands and stand with those on the margins, and I want to laugh as much as I can.

"Priest Fights Gangs With 'Boundless Compassion'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 20, 2010.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Euripides (1968). “Euripides: The Cyclops, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Heracles, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Tauris, translated by W. Bynner. Helen translated by R. Lattimore”

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.279

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

"De Divinatione". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II. 5, 44 B.C..

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 23, 1799.