Quotes about Hindsight

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To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny, Sign of the Unicorn
It is easy to be wise after the event. — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise — David Zindell, The Broken God
Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, — R.A. Salvatore, Sea of Swords
In the argument over whether knowledge is power or ignorance is bliss, it seems I've always come down on the side of ign — Abby Fabiaschi, I Liked My Life
Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the idea — Mary Swan
But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspic — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe — Louis Mountbatten
I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the — Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the — Khaled Hosseini
I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after them and spare you the — Khaled Hosseini
What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the general. They are most — Eudora Welty, On Writing
The historian is a prophet looking backwards. — Friedrich Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments
You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of st — Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it — Rasheed Ogunlaru
Retrospect: the sweetener of life. — Kamand Kojouri
Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. . The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for fore — Johnnie Dent Jr.
There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiri — Criss Jami, Killosophy
Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart. — Shannon L. Alder
Does being true to one's self mean offering the literal truth or the truth that should have been, the truth of the image — Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Leaving Brooklyn