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

— Anonymous

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot…

— Ben Gibbard

From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs,…

— Twiggy

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have…

— Adam Hochschild

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

We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I…

— Charlie Cox