Quotes About Hindsight

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!

With the benefit of hindsight it is arguable that the Royal Navy would have had better value from the 15in-gun battlecruisers for which sketch designs were prepared in November 1921, and which were subsequently rejected in favour of the slow, heavily armoured 23-knot battleship.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

Might have been and could have done, neither worth thinking on.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand

All my success seems to come straight away, and it's not until later that I get to appreciate it. Like with 'Popstars,' I won the competition, and now I look back and go, 'God, I was lucky to have number-one singles and albums.'

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.

The benefit of hindsight is we only really talk about those things that did work out.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.

Muy pronto en mi vida fue demasiado tarde.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

I still consider 'Vaastav' and Raj Kumar Santoshi's 'Pukar' two of my better films, though I admit nothing great happened thereafter.

With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

Time will say nothing but I told you so.