Top 100 Quotes About Hindsight
#1. I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
Adam Brody
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Hey! Remember the '90s?
The Clintons were in office, everybody was using AOL, Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri did "the Cheerleaders" on SNL, and everybody thought Oasis was fantastic.
In hindsight, we were all a bunch of potato-salad-eating jackasses.
Julie Klausner
#5. 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
#8. It is only with hindsight that we can see the paradigms of the past for the intellectual straitjackets they were.
Terryl L. Givens
#10. Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.
Peter F. Hamilton
#12. I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.
Tom Felton
#13. I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M.A.S.H.' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad.'
Kevin Bleyer
#14. In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage in Jamaica, and running a muck among the exhibits of fabulous Jamaican art at the National Gallery while mum was upstairs curating.
Michael Hyatt
#15. She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day.
Sarah Addison Allen
#16. 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
#17. He loved me. I do not doubt that. In hindsight, I do not believe that I loved him. I simply felt his love for me, burning and all-consuming, and reflected it back, as the cold light of the moon reflects the light of the sun. I did not know that at the time. I thought I loved him.
Neil Gaiman
#18. We'd all be a bunch of geniuses if we had hindsight ahead of time.
Wally Lamb
#19. I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.
Rita Dove
#20. Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise
David Zindell
#23. He'd heard the saying hindsight was twenty-twenty, but that wasn't accurate.
Hindsight was a stupid motherfucking asshole.
Priscilla Glenn
#24. The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see that we might have avoided and escaped it.
Alexandre Dumas
#25. I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.
Andrew Lincoln
#26. I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you.
Jessica Fortunato
#27. She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.
Barbara Delinsky
#28. The problem with comprehension is, it often comes too late.
Rasmenia Massoud
#29. I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time ago when he was an inexperienced, young actor and now with maturity and hindsight, he has learned not to engage the press in his personal life again.
Luke Evans
#30. How good the past can look from a rest stop in a bitter future!
Kaimana Wolff
#31. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
William Blake
#32. I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation.
Damian Barr
#33. We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.
Ben Gibbard
#34. I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.
Casey Neistat
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. I've developed a much greater respect for our politicians and every high-tech CEO. It's very easy to read about the things they did that you, of course, would have avoided in hindsight.
Michael J. Saylor
#39. 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
#40. Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
Tim O'Brien
#41. A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.
Steven Sinofsky
#42. 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
#43. May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Heather Lyons
#45. Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
Kevin Kline
#46. Looking back with the infallible benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that anyone believed we could actually have stayed out of that damned war.
Craig Siegel
#47. The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
Clive James
#48. Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.
Donald Miller
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.
Will Chase
#52. Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.
Barbara Delinsky
#53. 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
#54. My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.
Jackie Kay
#55. It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.
Erin McKean
#56. When you're in the middle of it, nothing is as clearly defined as hindsight makes it appear.
Cynthia Kim
#58. As I thought
about that, I had
to wonder: What will we
know better about tomorrow?
Who cares? Hindsight is useless.
Ellen Hopkins
#59. Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.
Donald Rumsfeld
#60. Presidents don't have the benefit of hindsight. You have to make difficult decisions based on the information that's before you at that moment.
Marco Rubio
#61. With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.
Paul Burrell
#62. The tragedy of hindsight is that it always come too late.
Marilyn L. Rice
#63. Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
Roland Gift
#64. Why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?
Bernhard Schlink
#65. You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.
Sarah Vowell
#66. It would only be in the cold gaze of hindsight that I would be able to comprehend that while in flight from pain, I became an agent of it.
Charles M. Blow
#68. Hindsight, I thought, was like a punishment, remorseless in its clarity and painfully unable to change what had gone before.
Susanna Kearsley
#69. No way, man. I got one rule as a driver."
"What's that?"
"Never look in da rearview mirror."
"Never?" We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.
"It's not healthy to keep a' watchin' what you leavin' behind.
Marisha Pessl
#70. Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.
Ben Galley
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.
Chelsey Philpot
#74. No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#77. As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.
Greg Laurie
#78. 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
#79. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#80. 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
#81. His continued success in the field had blinded him. He was so good at his job that the suggestion that he might not have been infallible was ridiculous. Now, as he examined his file with the benefit of hindsight, he saw that he had missed a series of indicators.
Mark Dawson
#82. I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but none came to mind at the time.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#83. People change, though, especially after they are dead.
Margaret Atwood
#84. The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.
Gerry Cooney
#85. I told personal stories the way [Bill] Cosby would spin a yarn for ten minutes. I think in hindsight it works better as a long story than as a condensed monologue.
Ed Helms
#86. I heard someone say once that hindsight was a wonderful thing, that without it there would be no history.
Kate Atkinson
#87. 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
#88. Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case.
Hersh Shefrin
#89. We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?
Erik Larson
#90. Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull
#91. Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.
Edward De Bono
#92. All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.
Laura Lippman
#93. I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.
Eugene Mirman
#95. 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.
Kate Bosworth
#96. 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
#97. He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.
Rosamunde Pilcher
#98. 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
#100. The most difficult problems lead to the greatest insights; but often in hindsight!
Nalin Singh
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