Hindsight Quotes

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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

Life Logic Hindsight Sequence

When we're the story, when we're part of it, we can't know t

When we're the story, when we're part of it, we can't know the outcome. It's only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And does anybody else, perhaps, coming along a little later, does anybody else really care? ... History is written by the survivors, but what is that history? That's the point I was trying to make just now. We don't know what the story is when we're in it, and even after we tell it we're not sure. Because the story doesn't end.

James Robertson

Life Humanity History Understanding Perception Storytelling Perspective Stories Mankind Insight Hindsight Continuity

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen o

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not come to pass, these hints would have been forgotten, as thousands and millions of suggestions and supposition are now forgotten that were current at the period, but have been shown by time to be unfounded and so have been consigned to oblivion.

War Hindsight