The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
– Friedrich Schlegel
Related Quotes:
- Any prophet who does not refer you to christ is not a true prophet. – Patience Johnson
- A prophet is always underestimated, and part of what makes one a prophet is that he doesn’t really mind it. – Criss Jami
- False prophet: A prophet whose god is not yet known – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings. – August Wilhelm Schlegel
- And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone. – Rob Schlegel
- It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards. – Gillian Duce
- Dear girl, it will be a very long road if you spend more time looking backwards than forward. – Soman Chainani
- To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really going on around you. – Anne Carson
- The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid – Lucian of Samosata
- The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom. – Marty Rubin
- The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. – Henry Adams
- Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – HL Mencken
- God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past. – Ambrose Bierce
- I think it’s outrageous if a historian has a ‘leading thought’ because it means they will select their material according to their thesis – Antony Beevor
- The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. – Stendhal
- A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint. – Ambeth R Ocampo
- Study the historian before you begin to study the facts. – Edward Hallett Carr
- The historian’s rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. – BH Liddell Hart
- He doesn’t have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He’s a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part. – Marc Maron
- Josephus is the first historian to make note of Jesus having even existed -“ and that happened six full decades after his death. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
- Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian’s mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything. – Richard Marius
- If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you’ve got it backwards – Muni Natarajan
- Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country’s melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards – Jussi AdlerOlsen
- Just answer the questions so I can get the ???? out of this backwards shithole before I start wanting to root a goat and marry my own brother. – JD Nixon
- Sure he was great, but don’t forget that Ginger Rogers did everything [Fred Astaire] did, .. backwards and in high h – Bob Thaves
- Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back. – Richard Belzer
- For him, she bends over backwards. It is origami of the heart. (Pour lui, elle se plie en quatre. – C’est l’origami du cÅ“ur) – Charles de Leusse
- Fears drive us backwards. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Sex spelled backwards is excess and that’s how it should always be. – Chloe Thurlow
- Sometimes wisdom dictates that you take a few steps backwards to be able to go much further – TemitOpe Ibrahim
- L I V E or E V I L — to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards. – Shannon L Alder
- He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards. – Jonathan Renshaw
- Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures. – Alan McCluskey
- Don’t look backwards. That never does any good. Think about the future instead. – Abigail Strom
- Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards – Adeline Yen Mah
- True leaders are like statues, whether it rains or it shines, they never bend their necks to look backwards! They never run away from challenges! – Israelmore Ayivor
- It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,’ says the White Queen to Alice. – Lewis Carroll
- I have my welcome mat turned around backwards so when people leave they think they’re going to a better place. – Stanley Victor Paskavich
- & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word. – Amiri Baraka
- A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards! – Mehmet Murat ildan