Hindsight is notably cleverer than foresight.
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Quoted in The Magnificent Mitscher by Theodore Taylor, p. 266Chester W. Nimitz
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"If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them adjust to changing conditions, we will, of course, agree. This is done now; we desire that it be done better. There is however, a point on this road that must not be passed; it is the point where governmental foresight would step in to replace individual foresight and thus destroy it."
Frederic Bastiat
No one in our age was cleverer than Keynes nor made less attempt to conceal it.
John Maynard Keynes
In order to succeed it is not necessary to be much cleverer than other people. All you have to do is be one day ahead of them.
Leo Szilard
With hindsight, one can perhaps see that unachievable projects were the right monuments to an ideal. Because they were not built, they could not be destroyed.
Robert Hughes
People will observe you to see
How well you have observed.
The man who only observes himself however never gains
Knowledge of men. He is too anxious
To hide himself from himself. And nobody is
Cleverer than he himself is.Bertolt Brecht
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