Quotes & Sayings About Hindsight And Foresight

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight. — Chester W. Nimitz

It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight — Carlos E. Asay

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly. — John Adams

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain! — William Blake

Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — Clive James

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight. — Robin Sharma

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Reality looks much more obvious in hindsight than in foresight. People who experience hindsight bias misapply current hindsight to past foresight. They perceive events that occurred to have been more predictable before the fact than was actually the case. — Hersh Shefrin

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts. — Grace Paley

How you look at it is pretty much how you'll see it — Rasheed Ogunlaru

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. — Heather Lyons

And why do we worship hindsight (as in the news media's constant rehash of the day, the week, the year) and yet distrust foresight, which actually might make a difference in our lives? — Gavin De Becker

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility. — Benjamin Graham

Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all. — Evan Esar

It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But ... I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5 — Jane McGonigal

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture. — Simon Pegg

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future. — Kevin Kline

May ya have the hindsight ta know where you've been, the foresight ta know where where you're going, and the insight ta know when you're going too far... — Shirley Bourget