106 Quotes About Hindsight

Sometimes the rules only seem silly because you aren't able to see far enough ahead.

It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.

With the benefit of hindsight, I formed the opinion that professional astronomers viewed their high altitude workers as disposable.

Such vows . . . strike one with a sort of horror at what happened afterwards.

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.

So long as we trace the development from its final outcome backwards, the chain of events appears continuous, and we feel we have gained an insight which is completely satisfactory or even exhaustive. But if we proceed in the reverse way, if we start from the premises inferred from the analysis and try to follow these up to the final results, then we no longer get the impression of an inevitable sequence of events which could not have otherwise been determined.

We had more in common than I thought we did. You were my priority. You were your priority.

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

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