Maybe that’s wisdom, seeing things that are obvious.

Sometimes our fates take turns that we don't notice in the moment they occur, but if you live as long as I have they become clear in hindsight.

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Seeing clearly means that you’re smart enough to know when a project is doomed, or brave enough to persevere when your colleagues are fleeing for the hills. Abandoning your worldview in order to try on someone else’s is the first step in being able to see things as they are.

But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.

Looking back on things, the view always improves.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious.

History’s made of surprises that seem obvious in retrospect.

It was one of those moments — which sometimes occur only at the interval of years — when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye. Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.