Hindsight Quotes

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

— Jeremy Siegel

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

— Kevin Kline

After the event, even a fool is wise.

— Homer

“It is easy to be wise after the event.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

— Morris Kline

“Coincidence is hindsight epiphanized.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

hindsight is not a strategy.

— Jane Bryant Quinn

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

— Julia Hartz

Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight

— Foresight

I would find myself getting deeply distressed if I lived in hindsight all the time.

— Andrew Lincoln

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

— Rick Warren

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

— Melika Dannese Lux

“Hindsight sucked. In fact hindsight should be assassinated.”

— Samantha Young

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.

— Ben Galley

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

— Paul Burrell

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

— Michael Burry

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a…

— Benjamin Graham

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was…

— Jeannette Walls

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of…

— Nick Nurse

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one…

— Henry Flynt

“It’s only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped…

— Chelsey Philpot

Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.

— Roland Gift

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the…

— Michael Beschloss

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!

— William Blake

“I realized I did not want to be in a relationship with her. Hindsight and growth allow me to realize that my…

— Charles Benedict

I do not comment on my client's personal lives in the media. As for Luke, he did so once, a long time…

— Luke Evans

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went…

— Jo Nesbo

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the…

— Lionel Barber

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given…

— Malcolm Turnbull

My mother used to dress rather risque when I was a kid, and that sort of shocked me. I always thought moms…

— Drew Barrymore

Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't…

— Joe Louis Walker

“It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no…

— Shannon L. Alder

It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining…

— Arundhati Roy

For me, something that's been always really important to me, that's also really served me well in hindsight, is doing different things,…

— Michelle Monaghan

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances,…

— Anonymous

“What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight:…

— Eudora Welty

“Regrets are like molecules. We're all made up of a lot of them. They are elemental. Building blocks. The foundations of memory.…

— Ellen Hopkins

I think I need to spend some time with safari but what arrests my attention are salient, sadomasochism, saccadic, and salad days.…

— Dara Wier

Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to…

— Tom Szaky

“Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances,…

— R.A. Salvatore