Hindsight Quotes

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. (Robert M. Pirsig)
Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact. View quote
Helen Reddy
Whether it is successful or not is not the exercise for me. It is not up to me. It is out of my hands now. I am not going to in two years have hindsight and say I made a big mistake. View quote
Vince Gill
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
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. View quote
Tom Stoppard
It may seem like hindsight now, but I just knew that Doctor Who was going to be an enormous success. Don't ask me how. Not everybody thought as I did. I was universally scoffed at for my initial faith in the series, but I believed in it. It was magical. View quote
William Hartnell
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. View quote
Billy Wilder
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
No. Real love takes time to build. What you feel is just infatuation. (Geary) But it doesn't feel temporary. (Arik) It never does at its onset. It's only in hindsight that we realize the difference between infatuation and love. (Geary) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept? View quote
Bernhard Schlink
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then. (Ken Follett)
To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process. View quote
Julia Leigh
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy. View quote
Kristin Bauer van Straten
At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger. View quote
Kate Bosworth
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. View quote
Louis J. Freeh
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like. View quote
Maya Lin
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. View quote
Queen Elizabeth II
This is easy to say with the benefit of hindsight, but I think it once again points out how very important style of leadership, that is the way he does what he does, is to his perception. View quote
Robert Teeter
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place. View quote
Ratan Tata
I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar. View quote
Steven Levitan
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. (Ted Yoho)
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. View quote
David Beckham
It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out-sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing. View quote
Cory Doctorow
I, for one, see this in much the same way I saw our denial of rights - as nothing short of a denial of our humanity. Not one of us has the "gospel," nor are our opinions based upon some revealed precepts to be taken as faith. As thinking, rational individuals, not one of us can claim infallibility, even from the overwhelming advantage of hindsight and Monday-morning quarterbacking. View quote
Clarence Thomas
The last thirty years of Einstein's life were largely devoted to a search for a so-called unified field theory that would unify James Clerk Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism with the general theory of relativity, Einstein's theory of gravitation. Einstein's attempt was not successful, and with hindsight we can now see that it was misconceived. Not only did Einstein reject quantum mechanics; the scope of his effort was too narrow. ... Nevertheless Einstein's struggle is our struggle today. It is the search for a final theory. View quote
Steven Weinberg