Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-25531508-20140923043228/@comment-25382671-20140924001648

11zeeshha wrote: You're not thinking logically... Obviously for kabuto to have even be able to make that statement, there is info on how strong hashirama is. The fact remains that people don't believe that he is that strong b/c they thought that level of strength to be impossible not that they didn't remember his strength.

I'm not thinking logically? If you read history a lot (which I don't usually do, but got back to it after some interesting bits and references from ASoIaF) you'll see that people tend to forget quickly the past or make it seem bigger or smaller (the feats of past people), according to assumption, envy or simply spite or lack of knowledge.

So yeah, the best we all can do is speculate endlessly.