Henry Fielding Quotes

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Fully consider the future and the immediate results of all undertakings, and the good and bad sides of all past actions.

Hindsight is, of course, 20/20. Any time you go back, and you look at something, and now you've got the result of something, you say, 'Yeah, maybe it wasn't the right idea.'

Those who made the decisions with imperfect knowledge will be judged in hindsight by those with considerably more information at their disposal and time for reflection.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

Reason can be used only when looking critically back.

Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you did yesterday.

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

We will never have 100 percent certainty except in hindsight.

Time and again ... governments have rejected proposals today—and longed for them tomorrow.

We’re pretty good in Washington at Monday morning quarterbacking.

Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'

When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21.

It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions that get made. You look back, and at the time they don't seem like it, but you look back, and you see they were absolutely fundamental.

There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.

Some things get clearer as you look back on them.