Hindsight Quotes - Page 2

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

hindsight is not a strategy.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

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

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

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

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.

Hindsight provides new eyes.

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

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . .

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

Hindsight alone is not wisdom. And second-guessing is not a strategy.

hindsight is gained through experience

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.