Being wrong Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are often wrong about the past, but at least with the past you can change your thinking. We can't do that with the…

— Chuck Klosterman

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

— Craig D. Idso

Not only can no one predict the future, we don't understand the present - and there isn't even any certainty about the past.

— Harry Browne

“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are…

— Morris F. Cohen

The future is inherently uncertain.

— Manmohan Singh

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

— Claude Shannon

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

— Mohsin Hamid

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

— Dale E. Turner

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

— Daniel Kahneman

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

— Daniel Kahneman

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

— Mark Twain