hindsight is always better than foresight. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Only in hindsight is it evident that they were deterrable. From Wordnik.com. [Containing Iran] Reference
Regarding the underlying issue, I would say that Carter in hindsight is fairly middling. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Jimmy Carter] Reference
The part that amazed me most, in hindsight, is just how wildly vocal and open he was about it. From Wordnik.com. [Page 3] Reference
Our hindsight is always better than our foresight. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine in Retrospect and Prospect] Reference
And like all great ideas, so obvious in hindsight!. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Thanksgiving Carnival of the Mobilists] Reference
A concern that in hindsight seems wholly justified. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin "Replaced God?"] Reference
But you can only see it in hindsight, never at the time. From Wordnik.com. [What are the Essential SF Books of the Last 20 Years?] Reference
However, I see no particular virtue in hindsight wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Canada and BritainThe Invisible Links] Reference
How very wrong I was, but in hindsight, it's so obvious. From Wordnik.com. [The Proposal] Reference
Aggregated and in hindsight, this process looks imperial. From Wordnik.com. [Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa] Reference
Maybe in hindsight, Trent Lott should have seen it coming. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush Urges Supporters To Help Keep (Retiring) Frist as Majority Leader] Reference
It's just one election, after all, and hindsight is 20/20. From Wordnik.com. [A Confession: What I Was Thinking the Morning of November 3, 2004, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Why do they seem, in hindsight, to have been so unprepared?. From Wordnik.com. [Fed Attribution Error, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Which was maybe not the best idea in hindsight, but I've made it. From Wordnik.com. [weekly] Reference
Maybe some of us have to learn in hindsight what we were seeking. From Wordnik.com. [How to Find Your Message and Stand Out | Write to Done] Reference
Maria Karra (1995: 7), a founding member, reflected that in hindsight. From Wordnik.com. [Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity] Reference
Much of what they had to say seems in hindsight overblown, even silly. From Wordnik.com. [The Professors Profess] Reference
But in hindsight, it pales in comparison to the brilliance of Adoration. From Wordnik.com. [[REVIEW] Mary E Pearson’s THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX « Urban Fantasy Land] Reference
The twist that occurs is obvious in hindsight, but was executed quite well. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW:Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling] Reference
Of course, hindsight is always 20/20 and it was still the fault of the shooter. From Wordnik.com. [Follow Up Editorial: Vice President Cheney Accepts Blame for Accidental Shooting] Reference
If that's true, then in hindsight the Reagan deficits look like money well spent. From Wordnik.com. [The New Nixon] Reference
The kind that, in hindsight, you can say, something really unique was happening then. From Wordnik.com. [The Boombox Project: A New Book Recounting Tales of New York Street Life, Music, And Community] Reference
Frankly, I'm nearly as surprised, in hindsight, that he lived until the age of fifty. From Wordnik.com. [Bizarre] Reference
Scaife says the obvious: in hindsight, the Clinton presidency was pretty damned good. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: February 2007 Archives] Reference
Obviously, in hindsight, we all wish a warning had been issued and the campus closed. From Wordnik.com. [1950s Thinking] Reference
Wow, lets take a look at some venerable technologies and in hindsight pick them apart. From Wordnik.com. [8 Stupid Mobile Technologies] Reference
Of course, in hindsight, I see I should have posted just so I was seen to have posted. From Wordnik.com. [Another Dark Secret from the Past] Reference
The kind that, in hindsight, you can say, "something really unique was happening then". From Wordnik.com. [The Boombox Project: A New Book Recounting Tales of New York Street Life, Music, And Community] Reference
The company then made a series of decisions that look, in hindsight, startlingly audacious. From Wordnik.com. [Electro-Shock Therapy] Reference
The war was the right thing to do then, and in hindsight it was still the right thing to do. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
Did she know about them then, or is it only in hindsight that she can deduce their presence?. From Wordnik.com. [Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583] Reference
The Clinton Administration officials were, in hindsight, exaggerating the threat that Iraq posed. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » “Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately”] Reference
Even in hindsight, the popularity of American Idol is difficult to explain, or at least to predict. From Wordnik.com. [Production Values] Reference
I thought I was impressing him, but he made me feel foolish — in hindsight it was a great lesson. From Wordnik.com. [HDTVs Shrink - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Mr. Sternberg says that in hindsight, Meebo made the leap to bigger compa ny at around 80 employees. From Wordnik.com. [Small No Longer, Start-Ups Learn to Adapt] Reference
I understand that things that are clear in hindsight can be a lot more opaque at the time decisions must be made. From Wordnik.com. [David Thielen: Attorney General John Suthers and Murderer Scott Kimball] Reference
Choose your own metaphor if you don't like that one: "that train has already left the station," or maybe "hindsight is 20/20.". From Wordnik.com. [Chris Weigant: Nobel Prize Obstructionism] Reference
But they sold them publicly as a way to close the temporary (and, in hindsight, quite small) output gap that existed in those years. From Wordnik.com. [More on the output gap: The structural unemployment debate] Reference
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