Hindsight Quote by Friedrich Von Schlegel

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

— Anonymous

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 a risk-terrified prophet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.”

— Steve Berry

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Though historians occasionally try their hand at prophecy (without notable success), the study of history aims above all to make us aware of possibilities…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The backward look behind the assurance Of recorded history, the backward half-look Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.”

— T.S. Eliot

“I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”

— James S.A. Corey

“The prophetic word is not intended as a minute history written in advance, but as a symbolic portrayal of what Christ has already done…

— Desmond Ford

“Prophecy is history unfulfilled, and history is prophecy fulfilled.”

— Dwight Lyman Moody