Quotes and Sayings About Hindsight
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
-- Adam Brody -
Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.
-- Amos Elon -
I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
-- Andrew Lincoln -
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
-- Barbara Tuchman -
If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.
-- Bret Stephens -
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
-- Chester W. Nimitz -
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
-- Clive James -
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 -
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise
-- David Zindell -
Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
-- Edwin S. Shneidman -
Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
-- Evan Esar -
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
-- Grace Paley -
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
-- Hilary Mantel -
Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.
-- Jeannette Walls -
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
-- Jimmy Cliff -
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
-- John Fletcher -
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.
-- Kazuo Ishiguro -
Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
-- Kevin Kline -
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
-- Larry Niven -
Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.
-- Maureen Howard -
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
-- Morris Kline -
I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.
-- Paloma Faith -
With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.
-- Paul Burrell
