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In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated! — Sergio Aragones

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

Hindsight is a dangerous game. — Shannon Messenger

Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment. — Jennifer Egan

The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias. — Daniel Kahneman

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. — Helen Reddy

She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day. — Sarah Addison Allen

It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time. — Yuval Noah Harari

The experience of redemption is to see differently in looking back," Reinders observes. "It is hindsight. — Anonymous

It would only be in the cold gaze of hindsight that I would be able to comprehend that while in flight from pain, I became an agent of it. — Charles M. Blow

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been. — Kurt Vonnegut

Hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole. — Ivan Doig

But hindsight was no benefit to the ill-prepared. — Andrea K. Host

Hindsight is an exact science. — Guy Bellamy

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,' Rushton said. 'There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end. — Isobelle Carmody

With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided — Eason Jordan

Washington's task was to transform the improbable into the inevitable. — Joseph J. Ellis

In hindsight everything is much clearer. — Bart Cummings

He'd heard the saying hindsight was twenty-twenty, but that wasn't accurate.
Hindsight was a stupid motherfucking asshole. — Priscilla Glenn

Everything seems obvious in hindsight! — Fredrik Backman

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place. — Shannon L. Alder

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

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight. — Roland Gift

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise — David Zindell

Hindsight is not 20-20. Not even close. Our view of the past, in fact, is hardly clearer than our view of the future. — Ed Catmull

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value. — Edward De Bono

I believe in love at first sight and hindsight. — Richard Madden

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then. — Ken Follett

Hindsight is 20-20. — Ed Catmull

. . . Orpheus struck dumb with hindsight. — A.E. Stallings

Hindsight is a lousy gardener, as my father always said. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe — Louis Mountbatten

Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before. — Susanna Kearsley

Hindsight is usually more tragic than helpful. — Linda S. Godfrey

We'd all be a bunch of geniuses if we had hindsight ahead of time. — Wally Lamb

But that's hindsight for you: never there when you need it. — Janet Givens

Hindsight's a wonderful thing," Klara said. "If we all had it there would be no history to write about. — Kate Atkinson

The most difficult problems lead to the greatest insights; but often in hindsight! — Nalin Singh

No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Hindsight sucked. In fact hindsight should be assassinated. — Samantha Young

Heart thoughts are profound, hindsight aches and hope is obscure. I'm craving a great adventure
one that leads me back home. — Donna Lynn Hope

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight. — Skylar Grey

The historian is a prophet looking backwards. — Friedrich Von Schlegel

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. — Maya Lin

Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? — Bernhard Schlink

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight. — Chester W. Nimitz

As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow?
Who cares? Hindsight is useless. — Ellen Hopkins

In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation. — Zachary Lazar

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins. — Richard Paul Evans

Why was it in hindsight you could see the cracks in a foundation you'd have otherwise thought was solid and smooth? — R.J. Lewis

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

hindsight
is gained
through
experience — Ellen Hopkins

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself. — Daniel Day-Lewis

In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football. — Alan Smith

Maybe everything would have been different. Hindsight is a mocking bitch for sure. — Tiffany King

Looking back with the infallible benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that anyone believed we could actually have stayed out of that damned war. — Craig Siegel

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future. — Kevin Kline

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight. — Penn Jillette

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight. — Robin Sharma

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect. — Sophocles

Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment. — Marco Rubio

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

War is an option of difficulties. — James Wolfe

In hindsight it was an inappropriate reaction — Michelle Gable

My hindsight seemed unbearably clear tonight. I could see every mistake I'd made, every bit of harm I'd done, the small things and the big things. — Stephenie Meyer

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be. — Paul Samuelson

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. — David Beckham

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life. — Deepak Chopra

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians. — Margaret Thatcher

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight. — Eleanor Roosevelt

It is easy to be wise after the event. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It is only with hindsight that we can see the paradigms of the past for the intellectual straitjackets they were. — Terryl L. Givens

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. — John Fletcher

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. — Larry Niven

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain! — William Blake

I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you. — Jessica Fortunato

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far. — Heather Lyons

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar. — Steven Levitan

In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight — Barbara W. Tuchman

The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives. — Nadine Gordimer

I mistakenly believed that my life had finally reached the peak of Crazy Bullshit Mountain. Hindsight — Jeremy Robert Johnson

In hindsight, I have no idea why he was ever with me. He thought highly of my breasts. And ... that's it, I think. — Emma Forrest

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.' — Natalie Massenet

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time. — Andrew Lincoln

You'd think hindsight would do us some good
But all it does sometimes
Is add glass to the kaleidoscope — J.D. Estrada

All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings. — Laura Lippman

On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective — Aporva Kala

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn. — Joanne Harris

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts. — Grace Paley

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.
To date, I had made three. — Melika Dannese Lux

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds. — Jeremy Siegel

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes. — Maureen Howard

I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history. — Kate Atkinson

Hindsight is a glorious thing. Too bad it never helps anyone. — Christina Tetreault

I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding

How good the past can look from a rest stop in a bitter future! — Kaimana Wolff

Wisdom in hindsight is, after all, our only exact science. — June Thomson

Who's to say that our decisions are right or wrong without the benefit of hindsight? — Jennifer Paynter