A Quote by Clive James

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

Clive James

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Clive James
Australian - Writer
Born: October 7, 1939

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 notably cleverer than foresight.

Chester W. Nimitz

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

Kevin Kline

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

Evan Esar

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

Robin Sharma

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

William Blake

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

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

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

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

Ron Chernow

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

Larry Niven

The word well spoken, the deed fitly done, even by the feeblest or humblest, cannot help but have their effect. More or less, the effect is inevitable and eternal.

Albert Pike

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Leon Edel

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

Thomas Mallon

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