Hindsight Quote by Kate Atkinson

“Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.”

— Kate Atkinson

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

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

— Kevin Kline

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

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

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

— A. Whitney Brown

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

— Hannah Arendt

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

— Hilary Mantel

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

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

— Clive James

History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.

— Ramon Gomez de la Serna

The time is not yet ripe to say what happened. When history's ready, then we can talk about it

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf