It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. Sprague de Camp
The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Benjamin Cardozo
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.
Sun Ra
I am not a prophet.
Jose Saramago
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi