Compare: "You can never plan the future by the past", Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol. iv. p. 55.
1770s, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" (1775)
“He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.”
Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear
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American clergyman and writer 1955Related quotes

“the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball”
2010s, 2018, Interview with Bill Kristol (2018)

John Cheever, in George Plimpton (ed.) Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fifth Series (New York: Penguin, 1981) p. 121.
Criticism

Jose Mourinho http://www.chelseafc.com/xxchelsea180706/index.html#/page/ArchiveNews/list_2210603_107

Louis van Gaal, the Dutch football manager. [March 8, 2007, http://www.sportinglife.com/football/cups/uefacup/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/07/03/07/SOCCER_AZ_Alkmaar_Nightlead.html, Van Gaal Rates Martins, Sporting Life, 2007-03-08]