Quotes: Divinations(fortune telling or paying more attention to the future than the present)divination
1. The methods or practices of attempting to foretell the future or discovering the unknown through omens, oracles, or by supernatural powers.
2. A prophecy or prediction; soothsaying or augury. 3. A premonition or feeling of foreboding about something that is going to happen. Divination refers to the methods or practices of attempting to foretell the future or discovering the unknown through omens, oracles, or with supernatural powers; prophesying or predicting the future; and consists of various methods of "fortune telling". It is the practice of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through communication with divine sources and through omens, oracles, signs, and portents. It is based on the belief in revelations offered to humans by the gods and in extrarational forms of knowledge; it attempts to make known those things that neither reason nor science can discover. Divination is also described as the art of obtaining special information from spiritual beings. The system takes for granted that the primitive belief that spiritual beings exist, are approachable by humans, have means of knowledge which people do not possess; and are willing, depending on certain conditions, to let diviners communicate the special knowledge which they are believed to possess. Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool. Believing is not always seeingMy interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.Those who don't look forward remain behind. Shallow men believe in luck . . . Strong men believe in cause and effect. This is the kind of thing I wouldn't believe even if it were true. There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural . . . . We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance. The future is no more uncertain than the present. A cheiromantist is a fortune-teller who palms herself off as a handreading expert or one who sees prosperity on every hand. I have seen the future and it is very much like the present—only longer. The most depressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer. The future isn't what it used to be. The best of seers is he who guesses well.
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