James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist
On his experience as a POW in Changi Prison on Singapore, which became the subject of his novel King Rat
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
“It is easy to be wise after the event.”
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“The two dukes were wise after the event (as the Bretons say).”
Philippe de Commines book Mémoires
Ces deux ducs dessusdits estoient sages après le coup (comme l'on dit des Bretons).
Bk. I, ch. 16.
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Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816) American politician
Gouverneur Morris to Robert Walsh ( February 5, 1811 http://www.bgdlegal.com/clientuploads/Publications/Publications/John%20Bush%20-%20Gouverneur%20Morris.pdf) <br class="br">1810s
“We cannot make Events. Our Business is wisely to improve them.”
Samuel Adams (1722–1803) American statesman, Massachusetts governor, and political philosopher
Letter to Samuel Cooper (30 April 1776) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2093 <br class="br">Context: We cannot make Events. Our Business is wisely to improve them. There has been much to do to confirm doubting Friends & fortify the Timid. It requires time to bring honest Men to think & determine alike even in important Matters. Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
“Literature is analysis after the event.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Quoted in Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, ed. Michael Horovitz (1969): Afterwords, section 2
“Wisdom always comes after the event.”
Swami Samarpanananda Monk, Author, Teacher
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Bellerophon, Fragment 298; quoted in Plutarch's Morals : Ethical Essays (1888) edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, p. 293
Carroll Quigley (1910–1977) American historian
Source: The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979), Chapter 1, Scientific Method and the Social Sciences, p. 35
