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I wanted to know that through this question of mine. However, my perception of the quote was wrong there.
Anyways, are there any canon sources which can explain/infer how good was the Dark Lord in the art of Divination?
It is said to be a very difficult art to get right, as explained by Dumbledore to Harry at the end of Book - 3, and how he was impressed by Prof, Trelawney's overall second correct prediction in her career.
True seers are very rare, and Cassandra Trelawney (great-great-grandmother of Sybill Trelawney) was one such canonnly known. Only those with gifted powers (or the so called inner-eye) can truly predict the future. So we can easily infer that non-gifted persons (particularly whose roots doesn't trace back to a gifted one) won't have the power of accurate future predictions.
And as far as we know, none of Voldemort's ancestor belonged to the seer family (because they were Slytherins and they considered them much above everyone to ever marry a common witch/wizard).
Hence even if there could not be a canon proof, we can logically deduce that Voldemort didn't have any divination skills. Still you may want to take a similar question I asked which could be more close to reality :
Considering the fact that he relied so heavily on occlumency - he seems to have embraced another branch of that similar side of magic.
