Hindsight famous quotes

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

#Captivating #Hindsight #Realising

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

#Past #Understanding #Hindsight

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

#Hindsight

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

#War #Hindsight #Midst

In hindsight everything is much clearer.
-- Bart Cummings

#Sports #Inspirational Sports #Hindsight

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
-- Billy Wilder

#History #Twenties #Hindsight

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.
-- Bret Stephens

#Benefits #Hindsight #Equity

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
-- Chester W. Nimitz

#Hindsight #Foresight

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

#Hindsight #Inevitable #Belittle

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

#Decision #Hindsight #Made

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise
-- David Zindell

#Wise #Hindsight

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

#Perception #Moments #Hindsight

hindsight is gained through experience
-- Ellen Hopkins

#Hindsight

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

#Sight #Planning #Hindsight

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

#Doe #Facts #Hindsight

Hindsight is an exact science.
-- Guy Bellamy

#Motivational #Hindsight

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
-- Hilary Mantel

#Vices #Hindsight #Historian

hindsight is not a strategy.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn

#Planning #Strategy #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.
-- Jeannette Walls

#Mom #Awful #Hindsight

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.
-- Jimmy Cliff

#Mean #Together #Hindsight

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.
-- Joe Paterno

#Wish #Done #Hindsight

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

#Wisdom #Hindsight #Form

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

#Past #Benefits #Hindsight

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
-- Kevin Kline

#Inspirational #Hindsight #Foresight

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

#Men #Might #Hindsight

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

#Running #May #Hindsight

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.
-- Maureen Howard

#Potatoes #Common #Hindsight

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
-- Morris Kline

#Hindsight #Source #Insight

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

#Looks #Emotion #Hindsight

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

#Letters #Benefits #Hindsight

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.
-- Paul Samuelson

#Two #Hindsight #Century

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.
-- S.J. Watson

#Hindsight #Middle #Difficult

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

#Writing #Past #Hindsight

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

#Liars #Hindsight #Should

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

#Moments #Hindsight #Conversation

Hindsight provides new eyes.
-- Wayne Dyer

#Eye #Hindsight

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.
-- Jeremy Siegel

#Play #Mind #Hindsight

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
-- Tim O'Brien

#Nice #Ideas #Hindsight

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

#Regret #Decision #Hindsight