Quotes About Hindsight

Sandy tried to never lose sight of the fact that we tend to order things according to the reality we know, as we discover it. All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.

Le conditionnel passé, le temps des opportunités manquées.

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind... I would have eaten less cottage cheese and more ice cream.

And it is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should have taken a risk or dared something new sooner.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

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.

I've said in earlier interviews maybe I should have stayed one or two more years in Holland.

Maybe in hindsight the move to Sauber - not to disregard that year - but maybe if I'd stayed at Force India, that could have been a change to my career.

How many times in your life are you allowed to say, "If only...?"

How many times in your life are you allowed to say, "If only…?

You may see the time you wish you had worse.

The "what-ifs": they'll do a number on you.

Of all sad words, of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been.' Let's add this thought, unto this verse: 'It might have been a great deal worse.

Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.

What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.

It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed no direct threat. History could be milked for this cause or that. We observed it always with hindsight, projecting onto it our modern convictions and anxieties.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

I've learned an important trick: To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.

Regret is past-tense decision making.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.