The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

— Karl Kraus

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

— Karl Kraus

“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and…

— Hugh Laurie

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Jesus existed only as an image in the heart of God, until such time as the prophets of the Old Testament could positively confess…

— Kenneth Copeland

“He speaks the words of a distant prophet as though He has written the words Himself.”

— Roma Downey

Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.

— Kevin DeYoung

And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a…

— Thomas Hobbes

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.

— Thomas Campbell

“A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to…

— Megan McKenna

“You are the king no doubt, but in one respect, at least, I am your equal: the right to reply. I claim that privilege…

— Robert Fagles

Prophets are so dangerous because they cry in season and out of season, politely and impolitely, loud and long.

— Joan D. Chittister

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead