History Quote by Yanis Varoufakis Download Open image ““Hindsight blurs history and tortures the mind with sterile hypotheticals.”” — Yanis Varoufakis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Psychology
“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.” — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before.” — Susanna Kearsley Copy Share Image
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“we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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“Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.” — Brandon Cella Copy Share Image
“Hindsight is something everyone falls prey to, even those of us with a little magic.” — Suzanne Palmieri Copy Share Image
“Forcing new loans upon the bankrupt on condition that they shrink their income is nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment. Greece was never… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“Larry Summers is one such rare insider. His question to me was in fact an invocation to reject the lure of the outside. Underpinning… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
The many refugees are not a Greek or German problem. They are a European problem. We should therefore develop a common strategy. That's why… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“If you cannot imagine walking out of a negotiation, you should never enter it. If you cannot fathom the idea of an impasse you… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Had history been democratic in its ways, there would have been no farming and no indsturial revolution. Both leaps into the future were occasioned… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised. — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
I don't believe a Brexit will hurt the City of London as one of the largest financial centers in the world. — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
“Whenever a politician in the know gives a journalist an exclusive in exchange for a particular spin that is in the politician’s interest, the… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern… — Yanis Varoufakis Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
