If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.
The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.
Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.
I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.
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 is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
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.
Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.
Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.
It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.
Hindsight is an exact science. Hold fast to your dreams, for it dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
Everything was such a damned nice idea when it was an idea.
I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
Hindsight provides new eyes.
And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives?
How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.
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