Best 92 quotes in «hindsight quotes» category

While I formally became disabled at age 45, with the benefit of hindsight I should have registered as disabled at age 35.

Which of our unnoticed isms will the hindsight of future generations condemn?

With the benefit of hindsight, the biggest mistake that I made in life was working in the toxic field of high altitude astronomy.

With the benefit of hindsight, I realized that astronomers had successfully avoided fully researching the harmful biological effects that their high altitude facilities were having on their workers health and safety.

With the benefit of hindsight, it was clear that astronomy management teams were lying through silence to their workers regarding the toxicity of their high altitude astronomical facilities.

With the benefit of hindsight, I would not choose a career that had me working with the various forms of electromagnetic radiation.

With the benefit of hindsight, I realized that I was fooled into working at the biologically toxic Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).

With the benefit of hindsight, I realized that there was a blatant disregard for worker health and safety by the astronomical management teams that I worked for in the USA.

With the benefit of hindsight, it was a serious mistake to think that the modern corporate healthcare system could accurately diagnose and treat me.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

hindsight is not a strategy.

Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment.

Hindsight provides new eyes.

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice.

I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.

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

Funny to do something and then realise the reason for it afterwards.

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 myself.

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

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.

Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool’s gold.

Educated idiots are the most fearsome creatures in a leadership structure because even though trained they still refuse to think.

The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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

At the end of things we turn into historians. Sometimes happy, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes regretful or bitter, sometimes to reassure ourselves that we have amounted to something, however small. And sometimes, as I am doing now, to try with the wisdom of hindsight to make sense of ourselves.

Does being true to one's self mean offering the literal truth or the truth that should have been, the truth of the image of one's self? It hardly matters by this time. By this time the border between seeing straight on and seeing round the corners of solid objects, between the world as smooth and coherent and the world as dissociated skinless particle, is thoroughly blurred. No longer a case of double vision, but of two separate eyes whose separate visions - what happened and what might have happened - come together in what we call the past, which we see with hindsight. Memory is revision. I have just destroyed another piece of my past, to tell a story.

Everything seems obvious in hindsight!

Hindsight, ever the cruelest and most astute adviser

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