Hindsight Quotes

116 quotes by 111 authors

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight. — Penn Jillette
Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish. — Daniel Kahneman
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to… — Daniel Day-Lewis
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. — Maya Lin
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice. — Hilary Mantel
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit… — Jo Nesbo
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists. — Larry Niven
I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My… — Jane Pauley
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing… — Robert M. Pirsig
You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are… — Norman Schwarzkopf
Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers… — Malcolm Turnbull
It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you have to be… — Carol Shields
Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea. — Tim O'Brien
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been. — Kurt Vonnegut
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each… — R A Salvatore
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. — Ansel Adams
Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn… — Bernhard Schlink
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins. — Richard Paul Evans
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise — David Zindell
No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesnâ€™t feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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