Quotes About Hindsight

Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.

History is that thing that, in hindsight, one always saw coming; a few seem able to glimpse it before it has settled on its destination

I sometimes think the biggest price we pay for war is what might have been.

stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

In the end we are reduced to saying It seemed like a good idea at the time .

I learned a long time ago, Ellie, that 'if only' is a very dangerous game indeed.

All of that, however, is clear only in hindsight.

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

de qué sirven las premoniciones? Casi de tanto como las ideas retrospectivas

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

We, of course, have the power of hindsight in our arsenal, but people living in Berlin in that era didn't. What would that have been like as this darkness fell over Germany?

On hindsight, I feel I should have given more time to sports. But I really got bitten by the acting bug.

I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

In hindsight I might have chosen a different path and everything but I still make music, I have a core following that wait for every new album and it's given me the career I have now.

There's always things we could have done better, and it's easier with hindsight.

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

A moment of disruption is where the conversation about disruption often begins, even though determining that moment is entirely hindsight.

In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio.

'Balls of Fury' was a 45-day shoot when it probably - hindsight being 20/20 - probably should've been a 75-day shoot with all the ping-pong action.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?