Quote by William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain

Summary

In this quote from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, the character Banquo is challenging the witches who have prophesied Macbeth's future. Banquo questions their ability to predict outcomes, asking if they can truly see into the future and discern which seeds will flourish and which will fail. This quote touches upon the themes of fate, free will, and the uncertainty of the future. Banquoâ€™s words convey skepticism towards supernatural predictions and highlight the human desire for knowledge and control over one's destiny.

Topics

Time

By William Shakespeare

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

$He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of T$

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

President Anti Intellectualism George W Bush Governor Of Texas Uneducated Mind

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Don't play what's there, play what's not there.

Music

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the p

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Art Photography

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

The science of life is changing hearts and minds.

Science

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, where

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

Vladimir I lenin

Science Wage Slavery

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for fami

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

Family

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, eve

Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Kailash Satyarthi

Child Childhood Single Matters Every

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing w

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point tha

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Love

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare

Poetry Nature As You Like It Celia

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first ha

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

Truth

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that ke

I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.