Hindsight is good, foresight
Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all. Evan Esar
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Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all. Evan Esar
I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice. Eugene Mirman
For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible. Eric Foner
Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I’m always convinced that the reason that I didn’t take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn’t see any women. I didn’t think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn’t see women in my … Read more
As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless. Ellen Hopkins
hindsight is gained through experience Ellen Hopkins
Probably the most difficult scene to film was the one where I’m attacked. I haven’t thought about it in a while because, in hindsight, you make jokes about it and you get funny stories from it. When I was talking about it earlier today, I started to realize that it took a couple days probably … Read more
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. Eliezer Yudkowsky
Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight. Eleanor Roosevelt
Hindsight is not only clearer than perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through the moment. Edwin S. Shneidman