Best 92 quotes in «hindsight quotes» category

The only sight I seem to possess nowadays is hindsight.

The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

The problem with comprehension is, it often comes too late.

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ("Walking down the memory lane" )

This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle of a sea of carnivorous jam. As I blacked out, all I could think of was a fortune teller I'd spoken to a few years ago, and how full of shit she'd turned out to be.

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and understand what it means.

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

Well, Hindsight, have you ever heard of the term Busy Idiot?

What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are mostly hindsight: arrows that I now find I myself have left behind me, which have shown me some right, or wrong, way I have come. What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another. But 'avail' is not what I want; freedom ahead is what each story promises - beginning anew. And all the while, as further hindsight has told me, certain patterns in my work repeat themselves without my realizing. There would be no way of knowing this, for during the writing of any single story, there is no other existing. Each writer must find out for himself, I imagine, on what basis he lives with his own stories.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

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

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.

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.

In hindsight everything is much clearer.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

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.

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

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

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