12 Quotes Tagged: hindsight

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what we've been through and understand what it means.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

I made my own house be my gallows.

"To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. As the man looks back to the days of his childhood and his youth, and recalls to his mind the strange notions and false opinions that swayed his actions at the time, that he may wonder at them; so should society, for its edification, look back to the opinions which governed ages that fled.

"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.

Which of our unnoticed isms will the hindsight of future generations condemn?

Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will.