Hindsight Quotes

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

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.

They`ve been running Deer Hunter like crazy on Bravo. And here is the whole goddamned Congress singing `God Bless America` on the steps of the US Capitol. I said, `Holy shit, this is the ending of the movie.` (on The Deer Hunter (1978) in hindsight, post-9/11, London Independent on Sunday, July 2002)

At first I thought, `he`s a teenager, he`s irritable,` but then I knew it was more than that. Then he finally said he was really depressed, so we got him help. He was a lot better for a while, and then I started to notice things missing. His wardrobe was shrinking, his jewelry missing. I just had suspicions. In hindsight, I wish I had taken him for drug testing. But being naive about the whole thing, I didn`t.

Hindsight is wonderful. It`s always very easy to second guess after the fact.

That`s an issue we have asked ourselves in hindsight - to what degree did we need to have more oversight and be involved in the governance and decision making,

It`s only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

In hindsight, I wouldn`t trade it for anything. It`s been just a phenomenal career for me so far, and I don`t see any reason why I should change.

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.

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.

(He estimated that he made) over 30 ... It`s such an icon. ... And it`s only with hindsight, you see that it`s (the original 1977 mask) not symmetrical and that it`s meant to be a machine-made thing. I was trying to make it look like ... it was fresh off the production line.

May you have the hindsight to know where you`ve been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to know when you have gone too far

In hindsight, it`s funny, ... At the time, it was like, `Oh no, not again.`