Backwards Quote by Karl Kraus Download Open image “A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.” — Karl Kraus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backwards Historian History Journalist
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
To view current events as a historian is to account for all perspectives, even those of your enemy — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
Historians are dangerous people. They are capable of upsetting everything. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all,… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The little stations are very proud because the expresses have to pass them by. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards. — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Now, success is not the result of making money; making money is the result of success - and success is in direct proportion to… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Can anyone be so foolish as to believe that there are men whose feet are higher than their heads, or places where things may… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
We have different expectations for different groups of people. We tend to modulate the degree with which we're forgiving or punitive depending on how… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
You know what, if you play 'She Looks So Perfect' backwards... you just listen to it. — Luke Hemmings Copy Share Image
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
