Quotes About Hindsight

another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

Hindsight is the easy way to mop up the mess which we call history; it is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

Employ hindsight but humbly, remembering that life and death decisions are made by leaders in real-time, and not by historians in retrospect.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

everything was obvious in retrospect. They even had a name for it: "hindsight bias." It referred to the difficulty of remembering how little you knew at the time, how uncertain things were, before they all played out. Even wildly contingent events looked inevitable in retrospect. But they weren't. And it's actually psychologically difficult to imagine not knowing back then what you know now.

Public life...lacks coherence and drama. (History, by contrast, attains coherence and drama only in hindsight.)

Never did I wake up on a morning feeling like, I made it! I'm living my dreams! Yet still, only in hindsight, I had and I was.

Yoseb was not wrong, and she could not take this back.

Just found my account after 2 years, what little impact I have made. In hindsight I didn't do much to push for change... but then again what did you do?

The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.

Peter) Easy to see in hindsight, but also easy to feel that, in another great city, on another continent, I was erasing her four years of unhappiness and setting her charmed life back on course.

Things always become obvious after the fact

With hindsight, Napoleon might have done better to build steam ships

The difference between Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and Enron's Kenneth Lay is far easier to recognize with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight.