Hindsight Quotes

Hindsight is an exact science.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.