A Quote by Clive James

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight. — © Clive James
The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
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.
Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.
Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!
Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
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.
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?
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.
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
When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.
In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.
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.
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
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.
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