History Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

History is an accumulation of error.

— Norman Cousins

“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

“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to know the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

— Mark Twain

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

— Daniel Kahneman

“‎"..one can predict the future with some degree of accuracy based on one's own knowledge of past events. And rare events do occur, but…

— Mary Lydon Simonsen

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

— Michael Shermer

It is difficult to predict, especially the future.

— Niels Bohr

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

— Daniel Kahneman

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

— Joel Garreau