Hindsight Quotes

The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yest...

In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognise su...

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might ha...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

I don't know if you have children of your own, Mariamjo, but if you do I pray that God look after th...

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian s...

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innume...

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the human...

the greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity;...

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with signific...

It is easy to be wise after the event.

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our prede...

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge...