Capricious Quote by Fernand Braudel

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

— Randall Robinson

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

— Anonymous

Yet what is to be done with events that have no place of their own in time; events that have occurred too late, after…

— Bruno Schulz

Some events take a lifetime to reveal their damage and influence.

— Michael Ondaatje

Time matters less than the nature of the people.

— Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

“Often, it’s hard to identify an economic event risk until it's too late.”

— Toba Beta

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

— Lee Simonson

“Most sociopolitical hierarchies lack a logical or biological basis – they are nothing but the perpetuation of chance events supported by myths. That is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Governments are wasting billions of dollars on attempting to predict events that are produced by interdependent systems and are therefore not statistically understandable at…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Because these consequences are distributed globally, the problem masquerades as a distraction. Because the length of time between causes and consequences stretches out longer…

— Al Gore

There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

— Bill Mollison

History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.

— Bernard DeVoto