The historian is a prophet looking backward.

“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

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

— Karl Kraus

The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

— Josef Albers

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.

— Sophie Swetchine

Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire…

— Oliver DeMille

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.

— Steve Jobs

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

— Burt Lancaster

“We live our lives in forward motion, but only understand them when looking backward. I therefore challenge you to keep a six- to twelve-month…

— Mary C. Neal

I try to avoid looking forward or looking backward, and try to keep looking upward.

— Charlotte Brönte

“You can't go forward if you're looking backward, Mac, Daddy always said. You run into walls that way.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“Stop looking backward. Life isn’t lived in that direction. Your future isn’t in that direction. It’s forward, out into the horizon ahead of you.”

— F.E. Feeley Jr

“I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t…

— R.J. Palacio

You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

— Karen Marie Moning

In order to move on from something of our past we have to change our way of thinking and our looking backward attitude.

— Anurag Prakash Ray