A Quote by Evan Esar

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

Evan Esar

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Best Better Foresight Good Hindsight Second Sight

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Evan Esar
American - Writer
1899 - 1995

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

William Blake

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

Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.

Chester W. Nimitz

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Kevin Kline

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

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

Grace Paley

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 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

If I had better foresight, maybe I could have improved things a little bit. But frankly, if I had perfect foresight, I would never have taken this job in the first place.

Richard F. Syron

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

I believe in love in hindsight, meaning attraction and connection can be remembered as love at first sight. But how could you possibly know at first sight? That's too much pressure to put on a relationship.

Greg Behrendt

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.