Hindsight Quotes

The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

~ Roshani Chokshi

Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.

~ Lee Smith

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.

~ Charles Mackay

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

~ Ansel Adams

I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesn’t, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. It’s a hindsight word.

~ Deborah Meyler

Educated idiots are the most fearsome creatures in a leadership structure because even though trained they still refuse to think.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

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

~ Joanne Harris

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

~ Kristin Bauer Van Straten

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

~ Michael Fassbender

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

~ Reed Hastings