Lewis Carroll Quotes

There's a lot of clarity in hindsight.

Perspective will come in retrospect.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

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

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Sometimes one misses the sign posts as you're going down the road. They aren't as obvious as they become when you get to the end of the road, so to speak.

I've lived an easy life, the life you dream about. And at that time I thought it was normal, but it's so far from normal.

You do what you do. Or you do what you have to do. I don't know how to explain it better. I think that in the moment, you can't see connections, but sometimes afterwards you do.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

When you're in the center of something, on a ride, I don't think you realize what it is until it's over.

Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this will be my moment again, perhaps once again I shall understand nothing, I shall grasp that other knowledge, found and lost in an instant.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.