in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice. — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Foresight is better than hindsight, but insight is better than either one of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.” — Luciano Canfora Copy Share Image
I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise — David Zindell Copy Share Image
Somebody once asked me, 'What do you do?' and I flippantly answered 'I'm a cultural engineer.' With hindsight, I kind of am… — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Hindsight is always 20/20, but I imagine a lot of married and divorced people have insights to share about how they felt… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
“Pah! I wave my cuff at hindsight as if it were a bothersome fly. Life can only be lived forwards, Ulysses. All… — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
We sure didn't feel like refugees, but in hindsight, I guess we were - my father and mother left everything behind to… — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
Another Quarter Pounder sometimes seems like a good idea- but I always regret later. Only in hindsight do we see how God… — Christopher Ruddy Copy Share Image
“If we adjudicate an operator’s understanding of an unfolding situation against our own truth, which includes knowledge of hindsight, we may learn… — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light… — Sidney Dekker Copy Share Image
“The miracle of hindsight is how it transforms great military geniuses of the past into incompetent idiots, and incompetent idiots of the… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“One of the less entertaining things about getting older, is that you learn that most things sound like bullshit are actually true.… — Elizabeth Bonesteel Copy Share Image
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered… — Dale A. Jenkins Copy Share Image
When we're in the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“The problem is, the phrase is dead wrong. Hindsight is not 20–20. Not even close. Our view of the past, in fact,… — Ed Catmull Copy Share Image
“Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the… — Mary Swan Copy Share Image
I think that any sort of hindsight, especially in this wrestling industry, is a waste of time, and time is extremely valuable.… — John Cena Copy Share Image
We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken… — Karan Casey Copy Share Image
“In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise such moments in… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“I try to live my life, as if I am 85 or 90 years old in retrospect. I was handsome and young… — TIM STORRS Copy Share Image
