Quotes About Hindsight

They say screwy things, make odd choices which, in retrospect, they feel amazingly foolish for making.

Do you know the difference between courage and foolhardiness, Dresden?" "Any insurance adjuster would say no." He waved a hand at my banter, as though that was all the acknowledgment it deserved. "Hindsight," he said. "Until the extended consequences of any action are known, it is both courageous and foolish. And neither." "Well," I said, "tonight you earned yourself a Schrödinger's Medal, I guess.

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.

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

I didn't throw the paper away. Maybe I should have. Oh, the things you know in retrospect.

That hindsight thing will bite you in the butt every time. And there's just something about youth that keeps us from realizing how every choice we make matters. What I would give if I could just go back and spend those nights with Beck when he was a little boy at home.

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight. There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end

It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,' Rushton said. 'There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.

hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

Moral regrets sound like this: If only I'd done the right thing.

But the truth is different. You're much more likely to have a Silver Emma moment than a Bronze Borghini one. When researchers have tracked people's thoughts by asking them to keep daily diaries or by pinging them randomly to ask what's on their mind, they've discovered that If Onlys outnumber At Leasts in people's lives—often by a wide margin.[7] One study found that 80 percent of the counterfactuals people generate are If Onlys.

Regret is the quintessential upward counterfactual—the ultimate If Only.

We are prone to blame decision makers for good decisions that worked out badly and to give them too little credit for successful moves that appear obvious only after the fact.

The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.

A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight.

our excessive confidence in what we believe we know, and our apparent inability to acknowledge the full extent of our ignorance and the uncertainty of the world we live in. We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.

Hell is the truth seen too late,

Hell is the truth seen too late," said Reine-Marie as she poured out more coffee. "Thomas Hobbes.

Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.

It is easy indeed to display foresight after the event. In retrospect all fools become wise.

When Em and I got back together, I could see that she had never been less than what I'd figured her to be. If anything, she was always better than I remebered. And that what I think love is [...] When your hindsight´s twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn´t change a thing.

And that's what I think love is...when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.

That's what I think love is, when your hindsight's twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn't change a thing.