Hindsight Quotes

Hindsight Quote of the day

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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 wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

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

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

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?

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.

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

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

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.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

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

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.

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

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

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

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

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.

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

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

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

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

Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

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.

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

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 bias makes surprises vanish.

War is an option of difficulties.

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

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

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

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

It's very easy for some men and in some cases women to sit back and say with 20-20 hindsight, "Tsk-tsk, should have done more." But it doesn't account for the reality.

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.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake.