“Wisdom always comes after the event.”
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“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
John Kenneth Galbraith book The Affluent Society
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 2, Section IV, p. 21
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist
As quoted in The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations (1960) by Tryon Edwards and C. N. Catrevas, p. 259
“The event proves well the wisdom of her [Phyllis'] course.”
Heroides (The Heroines)
Original: (la) Exitus acta probat.
The end proves the acts (were done), or the result is a test of the actions; Ovid's line 85 full translation:
Variant translations: The ends justify the means. All's well that ends well. NB: the end does not always equal the goal.
II, 85
“It is easy to be wise after the event.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“Literature is analysis after the event.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Quoted in Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, ed. Michael Horovitz (1969): Afterwords, section 2
James Clavell (1921–1994) American novelist
On his experience as a POW in Changi Prison on Singapore, which became the subject of his novel King Rat
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882–1962) Former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India
In page 87
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