Backwards Quote by Norm Coleman

Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through…

— Socrates

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not…

— John Malkovich

We're not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more…

— Lindsay Ellis

We are entering an age where people can claim to know more about what really happened than the people who were there. Where people…

— Romesh Ranganathan

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

— Frances Wright

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an…

— Hillary Clinton

When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed…

— S.E. Cupp

“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

History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

— Edmund Snow Carpenter

Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events…

— Hersh Shefrin

The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to…

— Hans Sloane

When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

— Robin Hobb