Gloria Steinem Quotes

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

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

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.

Things always become obvious after the fact

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

It is always awfully easy to say what she would have done after you haven’t done it

Time and again ... governments have rejected proposals today—and longed for them tomorrow.

Any 6 year old’s hindsight is better than a President’s foresight.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

The benefit of hindsight is we only really talk about those things that did work out.

Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

In hindsight, everything in my life looks a little rosy. But the reality is that with, say, 'Swingers,' when we finished, it was considered a total failure.

It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions that get made. You look back, and at the time they don't seem like it, but you look back, and you see they were absolutely fundamental.

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

I think there's something inherently interesting in the Monday morning quarterback: the guy who, you know, sits at one end of the briefing room and tells everyone what they should've done and how they've screwed up.

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step.

If half an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good or he is evil. (Melisandre of Asshai)