quotes 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 ElonSource : Amos Elon (2003). “The Pity of it All: A Portrait of German Jews, 1743-1933”
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I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
-- Andrew LincolnSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
-- Barbara Tuchman -
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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 StephensSource : Source: www.wsj.com
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Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
-- Chester W. NimitzSource : "The Magnificent Mitscher". Book by Theodore Taylor, 1954.
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
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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-LewisSource : "Age of experience". Interview with Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.
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Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise
-- David ZindellSource : "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.
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Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
-- Edwin S. ShneidmanSource : Edwin S. Shneidman (2004). “Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind”, p.160, Oxford University Press
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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 -
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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 CliffSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
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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 NivenSource : Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan
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Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.
-- Maureen Howard -
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
-- Morris KlineSource : Morris Kline (1982). “Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA
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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 -
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 -
It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.
-- S.J. WatsonSource : S J Watson (2011). “Before I Go To Sleep”, p.266, Random House
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I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.
-- Skylar GreySource : "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.
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I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
-- Steven LevitanSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
-- Steven Sinofsky -
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Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
-- Tim O'Brien -
Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
-- Roland Gift