Top 98 Hindsight Is Quotes
#1. Hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.
Ivan Doig
#2. Maybe everything would have been different. Hindsight is a mocking bitch for sure.
Tiffany King
#5. Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a "foregone conclusion." Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.
Diane F. Halpern
#6. Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.
Helen Reddy
#7. In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!
Sergio Aragones
#9. Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
John Fletcher
#13. Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.
Edwin S. Shneidman
#14. That's what love is, when your hindsight is 20/20, and you still wouldn't change a thing.
Jodi Picoult
#15. Wisdom in hindsight is, after all, our only exact science.
June Thomson
#16. Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.
Damon Lindelof
#17. Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
Evan Esar
#19. 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.
Benjamin Graham
#20. 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
#25. I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you.
Jessica Fortunato
#26. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
William Blake
#27. I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
Sam Huntington
#28. Hindsight is pointless, Arnuff," said the other man in the room, who was equally as old as the first. "Bring me one of those," he said, referring to the drink Arnuff held. Arnuff poured another bourbon and brought it to the coffee table.
J.T. Bishop
#29. 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
#30. As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow?
Who cares? Hindsight is useless.
Ellen Hopkins
#31. The tragedy of hindsight is that it always come too late.
Marilyn L. Rice
#32. Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.
Ben Galley
#35. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#36. If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
Anton Corbijn
#37. The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
Clive James
#39. I believed myself to be ready then; now, with the hindsight brought by greater age, I see myself for the naive and inexperienced young woman I was. We all begin in such a manner, though. There is no quick route to experience.
Marie Brennan
#40. In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
Barbara W. Tuchman
#41. In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ignorance. And when that's the side you fall on, you don't realize it until it's too late.
Abby Fabiaschi
#42. Failure doesn't mean anyone did anything bad. Sometimes people fail even when they only do good things. Or they do what they think is good. Only with hindsight can anyone understand the failures they experience.
Miyuki Miyabe
#43. The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
Morris Kline
#44. Self-preservation - this is your new focus.
The only obligation of today is to preserve the breath of tomorrow. Then, once footing is regained, you can begin to fulfill debt obligations.
Debt is hindsight.
John-Talmage Mathis
#45. To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.
Julia Leigh
#46. 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.
Tom Stoppard
#47. Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
Grace Paley
#49. Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?
Bernhard Schlink
#50. The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.
Robin Sharma
#51. Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time, is happening.
Ian Mortimer
#53. You'd think hindsight would do us some good
But all it does sometimes
Is add glass to the kaleidoscope
J.D. Estrada
#54. Much of our understanding of God's action in our lives in achieved in hindsight. When a particular crisis or event in our life has passed we cry out in astonishment like Jacob, 'The Lord is in this place and I never knew it.
Sheila Cassidy
#55. We go through the present blindfolded ... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and understand what it means.
Milan Kundera
#56. 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
#57. In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.
Steven Wright
#58. I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesn't, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. It's a hindsight word.
Deborah Meyler
#59. Which is better: to dare to look directly into the blinding present, no matter how painful, or to await the detachment of hindsight -- which, being less painful, is more objective?
Thomas Buergenthal
#61. The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Margaret Thatcher
#62. Your guess [about the future of technology] is as good as mine. The only thing I'm sure of is (a) most of the predictions I hear are almost certainly wrong, and (b) the things that will turn out to be important will come as a surprise, even though in hindsight they'll seem perfectly obvious.
Steve Krug
#63. On hindsight every failure is the best medicine, bitter but effective
Aporva Kala
#65. In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.
Taylor Hawkins
#66. The experience of redemption is to see differently in looking back," Reinders observes. "It is hindsight.
Anonymous
#67. We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.
Charlie Cox
#68. No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight
Carlos E. Asay
#70. There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.
Meghan Daum
#71. It is only with hindsight that we can see the paradigms of the past for the intellectual straitjackets they were.
Terryl L. Givens
#72. This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was - or is.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#73. The problem with comprehension is, it often comes too late.
Rasmenia Massoud
#74. There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.
Randy Pausch
#75. 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
#76. A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
Steven Sinofsky
#77. Is it true that we can count the moments in which something really happens in our lives? Do we notice it right away, or only in hindsight?
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#78. All decisions are different in hindsight. Maybe all we can do is make the best decisions we can in the moment, using the best information we have right then.
Miranda Kenneally
#79. 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.
Louis Freeh
#80. When you're in the middle of it, nothing is as clearly defined as hindsight makes it appear.
Cynthia Kim
#82. History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset.
David Grann
#83. This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception.
Robert Teeter
#84. No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn't feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It's only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#85. All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.
Laura Lippman
#86. Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.
Lucy Lawless
#87. Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son ... '
Tyrian found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own wedding is looking much better in hindsight.
George R R Martin
#88. But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.
Kate Morton
#89. In hindsight, I know that high school is a festering pit of boredom and hormones, not to be taken as seriously as it seemed while I was there. It is earthly purgatory before you enter the better parts of your life: you've got one foot in heaven and the other in hell.
Alida Nugent
#90. It is an iron rule of history that what looks inevitable in hindsight was far from obvious at the time.
Yuval Noah Harari
#91. Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.
Lee Smith
#92. We're always open to working with other writers, producers, and contributors for channelAPA. In hindsight, the goal is to develop our content and connect with people who have similar visions as we do.
Steve Nguyen
#93. It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.
Jenny Lawson
#94. There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.
George W. Bush
#95. 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.
Vince Gill
#96. 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
#97. There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
Criss Jami
#98. No captain with all the hindsight in the world can predict how the wicket is going to play
Trevor Bailey
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