About Quote by Leonard Mlodinow

“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an eye to…

— Julian Barnes

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

— Craig D. Idso

If you're constantly being reminded of the ways in which your history and your narrative as a people were rooted in loss and decay,…

— Kerry James Marshall

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that…

— Julien Benda

“Rooting arguments in evidence and respecting scholarly norms, historians must craft stories that shape the future as well as the past.”

— Michael J. Lansing

“Stories people told themselves were biased by the availability of the material used to construct them...what people remember about the past, [Kahneman and Tversky]…

— Michael Lewis

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

— Daniel Kahneman

The future is itself a story, and predictions are stories we tell to amaze ourselves, to give hope to the desperate, to jolt the…

— David Remnick

“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways to understand…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

— Paulo Coelho

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may…

— Seth Klarman

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according…

— Victor Davis Hanson