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title: "5 Hindsight Bias Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hersh-shefrin/reality-looks-much-more-obvious-in-hindsight-than-in-foresight-people/)

[Hersh Shefrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hersh-shefrin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bc/hersh-shefrin-93775_bias_reality-looks-much-more-obvious-in-hinds_124942.jpg)

> [Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eliezer-yudkowsky/between-hindsight-bias-fake-causality-positive-bias-anchoring-priming/)

[Eliezer Yudkowsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eliezer-yudkowsky/)

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> [“Hindsight bias and focusing only on the operator's role in accidents prevents us from fully learning from accidents and making significant progress…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nancy-g-leveson/hindsight-bias-and-focusing-only-on-the-operator-s-role-in-accidents/)

[Nancy G. Leveson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nancy-g-leveson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f2/nancy-g-leveson-31324_safety_hindsight-bias-and-focusing-only-on-the_1836916.jpg)

> [“The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-kahneman/the-worse-the-consequence-the-greater-the-hindsight-bias/)

[Daniel Kahneman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-kahneman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cc/daniel-kahneman-431_quote_the-worse-the-consequence-the-greater-th_2048000.jpg)

> [Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-kahneman/hindsight-bias-makes-surprises-vanish/)

[Daniel Kahneman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-kahneman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f2/daniel-kahneman-431_bias_hindsight-bias-makes-surprises-vanish-31_3142928.jpg)

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