Quotes About Hindsight

there's always somebody handy afterward to prove their foresight by your hindsight.

I try to live in the present. I learn from my mistakes in an effort not to repeat them, but I remain totally focused on today and tomorrow. Many of my mistakes turned out to be incredible opportunities for growth, both professionally and personally, and therefore, in hindsight, they were deeply valuable.

We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

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.

Hindsight held a level of perfection that real-time decision-making could not provide.

The bilateral illusion of unilateral attention was almost infantilely gratifying from an emotional standpoint: you got to believe you were receiving somebody's complete attention without having to return it. Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost literally fantastic: it would be like being able to both lie and to trust other people at the same time.

hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost literally fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.

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

a two-word formulation for the miraculous ability of pundits to deduce that a past event had been inevitable: "retrospective clairvoyance.

He sighed and knew that life was full of 'if only' for everyone

Like so many things in life, it had seemed like an excellent idea at the time.

With twenty-twenty hindsight I could solve every fucking problem, couldn't I?

It's regret that kills, the if onlys that leave the mortal wounds.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

I thought my early attempts at cooking tofu went well, but, in hindsight, I realize that's because I was cooking for hungry, vegetarian college students.

Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight.

Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

In life as in history the unexpected lies waiting, grinning from around corners. Only with hindsight are we wise about cause and effect.

Memory is a notoriously biased and sentimental editor, selecting what it wants to keep and invariably making a few cosmetic changes to past events. With rose-colored hindsight, the good times become magical; the bad times fade and eventually disappear, leaving only a seductive blur of sunlit days and the laughter of friends. Was it really like that? Would it be like that again?

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

It's easy to see what choices one should have made after it is too late to go back.