Backwards Quote by Karl Kraus

The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”

— Friedrich Von Schlegel

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

— Anonymous

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

— Karl Kraus

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

— Heather Cox Richardson

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

— Madeleine Albright

“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 first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but…

— Timothy Garton Ash

“A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.

— F. Sionil Jose

“There's a peculiar dichotomy in the nature of almost anyone who calls himself a historian. Such scholars all piously assure us that they're telling…

— David Eddings