Hindsight Quotes

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

What's done can't be undone.

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

We should have known better after the first war.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

Are those making these charges better equipped to deal with the Ebola threat than those they castigate? These easy charges, nurtured in hindsight, by people by people who have never had to make decisions or have responsibilities in the matter, play into the national penchant for finger-pointing and feed panic.

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced - because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

Every year at this time I join a growing number of journalistic flagellants in enumerating things that I got wrong in the previous annum's worth of columns.

I probably would do over the Tom Cruise interview because I've thought of so many things I would have said in hindsight.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

you dont know what you got till its gone

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye. Forget the past and you will lose both eyes.

Only when you have crossed the river, can you say the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

When I was playing football I never enjoyed it that much, I was never happy. If I scored two goals, I wanted a third, I always wanted more. Now it's all over I can look back with satisfaction, but I never felt that way when I was playing.