Hindsight Quotes
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Hindsight Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
— Roland Gift
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
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
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
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
— Friedrich Von Schlegel
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 thoughtabout 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
hindsightis 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
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
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
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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
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 goodBut all it does sometimes
Is add glass to the kaleidoscope — J.D. Estrada
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
