Hindsight Quotes

Hindsight is an exact science.

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

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

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

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

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

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

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.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

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

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

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

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.

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

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

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

hindsight is not a strategy.

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

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

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

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

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

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

hindsight is gained through experience

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.

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.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

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

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.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

Hindsight provides new eyes.