A Quote by Amos Elon

Hindsight is not necessarily the best guide to understanding what really happened. The past is often as distorted by hindsight as it is clarified by it.

Amos Elon

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Amos Elon
Israeli - Journalist
July 4, 1926 - May 25, 2009

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

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

Daniel Kahneman

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Skylar Grey

We've all, you know, done things that we think at the time were bad, but actually, in hindsight, you look back and go, 'I'm really grateful that happened because I'm a stronger person.'

Jessie Buckley

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Reed Hastings

Hindsight is a beautiful thing, mage. The past is for the memory, the present is for the mind.

Ben Galley

We will come to understand the part a difficult circumstance has played in our lives. Hindsight makes so much clear. The broken marriage, the lost job, the loneliness have all contributed to who we are becoming. The joy of the wisdom we are acquiring is that hindsight comes more quickly. We can, on occasion, begin to accept a difficult situation's contribution to our wholeness while caught in the turmoil.

Karan Casey

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

Evan Esar

But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Hindsight does always serve the purpose of putting you in the right, and if you don't have it, you find yourself very often in the wrong.

Roy Hodgson

In many cases, if we knew what it would take, we might have thought twice about it, so it's often wonderful that we don't have hindsight.

James Turrell

Let us reflect on the obvious but often neglected lesson that state-sanctioned discrimination never looks good in hindsight.

Loretta Lynch

As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.

Om Malik

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

Maya Lin

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.