Century Quote by Paul Samuelson

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

— Nikola Tesla

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

— Daniel Kahneman

Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our futures successes.

— Douglas Adams

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

— Kevin Kline

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified…

— Amos Elon

We read the future by the past.

— Alexander Crummell

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

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

— Nate Silver

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

— Neil Gaiman

“Once in a while, however, the future turns out to be very different from the past. It’s at these times that accurate forecasts would…

— Howard Marks

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

— Clive James

“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