Hindsight Quote by Hilary Mantel Download Open image “Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.” — Hilary Mantel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hindsight Historian History Vices
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James Copy Share Image
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog Copy Share Image
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified… — Amos Elon Copy Share Image
Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so… — Diane F. Halpern Copy Share Image
Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When we talk about people or a party being on the wrong side of history, it usually requires some hindsight, a position of informed… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of… — David Grann Copy Share Image
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The hunter is among the most innocent of men; living in the moment makes him feel pure. When he returns in the evening, his… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But what would happen … I mean, what would be so awful … if they did meet up?” “Why, it would be like the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
At New Year's he had given Anne a present of silver forks with handles of rock crystal. He hopes she will use them to… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He wants to say, because Anne is not a carnal being, she is a calculating being, with a cold slick brain at work behind… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Come to that, don't pay out good money for horoscopes. If things are going to go badly for you, is that what you need… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“But my sins are my strength, he thinks; the sins I have done, that others have not even found the opportunity of committing. I… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Mirabeau: “If you have been told to clear us from this hall, you must ask for orders to use force. We shall leave our… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'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 Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three.” — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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