Quotes About Hindsight And Foresight

#1. A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

Auliq Ice

#2. 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?

Gavin De Becker

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

Evan Esar

#4. Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

John Adams

#5. Who are you, Nature?
I live in you;
for fifty years I have been seeking you,
and I have not found you yet.

Voltaire

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

Grace Paley

#7. How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Robin Sharma

#9. For those of us who can't be active on the front lines - and this will be most of us - our job is to create a culture that will encourage and promote political resistance. The main tasks will be loyalty and material support.

Lierre Keith

#10. She guiltily found she didn't miss him as much as she missed company in general.

Ali Shaw

#11. May ya have the hindsight ta know where you've been, the foresight ta know where where you're going, and the insight ta know when you're going too far...

Shirley Bourget

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

Arianna Huffington

#15. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#16. He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

Brenna Yovanoff

#17. Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Chester W. Nimitz

#18. To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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

Clive James

#20. Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Kevin Kline

#21. 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

#22. If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. The bad news is that if those rights are watered down or taken away, the risk of tyranny will increase with each passing generation.

Glenn Beck

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

William Blake

#24. 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