Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of…

— Jacqueline Winspear

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

— Hilary Mantel

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

— Hilary Mantel

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

— Hilary Mantel

Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events…

— Hersh Shefrin

“A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three.”

— Melika Dannese Lux

Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything…

— Robert J. Waldinger

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

— Penn Jillette

'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of…

— Jim Beaver

When I first left Nike to go work with LeBron and manage him, I was really bullish about managing other athletes. I really wanted…

— Maverick Carter

You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of…

— Tom Felton

“Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake. Some decisions are right even in…

— Jill Santopolo

“in any company’s greatest achievements one might, with the clarity of hindsight, locate the beginnings of its own demise.”

— Jon Gertner

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage…

— Bernhard Schlink

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

— Anonymous