Quotes About Hindsight

Although hindsight and the outcome bias generally foster risk aversion, they also bring undeserved rewards to irresponsible risk seekers, such as a general or an entrepreneur who took a crazy gamble and won.

watercooler conversations that intelligently explore the lessons that can be learned from the past while resisting the lure of hindsight and the illusion of certainty.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

At the end of things we turn into historians. Sometimes happy, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes regretful or bitter, sometimes to reassure ourselves that we have amounted to something, however small. And sometimes, as I am doing now, to try with the wisdom of hindsight to make sense of ourselves.

I was in New York City for September 11th, and I was there for the 2003 blackout. I think in hindsight, you get a real perspective as to how unique those moments of crisis are in a place like New York City.

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.

There are a few key moments in anyone's life. A person is fortunate if he can tell in hindsight when they happened.

Hindsight is expensive. Foresight is valuable.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

and who's to say what would have been for the best? You only found out afterwards, when it was too late.

But then, as she told herself, who would learn better than she that hindsight is a prism that alters everything?

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Things always become obvious after the fact

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.

Executive teams we have worked with can often, in hindsight, lay out a clear chronology of the stages of their organization's development and the events that triggered the transition from one stage to the next. But in the moment these same people found it very difficult to describe exactly what was happening.

the famous remark of Hegel that 'the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk'"—Hegel's view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.

Events don't actually occur as often as people predict they will. And this in turn is related to hindsight bias (the tendency to see past events as being more predictable than they were at the time), which I'll discuss shortly.

A bloody good thing, but too late.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

Regrets are illuminations come too late.