Quote by Benjamin Graham

“Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky]…

— Michael Lewis

Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to…

— Nicholson Baker

“‎"..one can predict the future with some degree of accuracy based on one's own knowledge of past events. And rare events do occur, but…

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time…

— Julie Mehretu

We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it…

— S.J. Watson

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

— James F. Cooper

“our difficulty in accurately recognizing random arrangements of events can lead us to believe things that are not true—to believe something is systematic, ordered,…

— Thomas Gilovich

With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did…

— Thucydides

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.

— Hugh Howey

“Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.”

— Christopher Earle

“Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its…

— Ursula K. Le Guin