with the wisdom of hindsight

wisdom | American Dictionary

wisdom
noun[ U ]
us/ˈwɪz·dəm/
the ability to make good judgments based on what you have learned from your experience, or the knowledge and understanding that gives you this ability
Wisdom also means the quality of being a good judgment:
I question the wisdom of separating a child from his brothers and sisters whatever the circumstances.

Examples of wisdom

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The common wisdom is straightforward: children are more able to learn another language than adults are.
Conventional wisdom-and many textbooks-suggest that diversification benefits are largely exhausted with a portfolio of 10-15 stocks.
This revisionism nonetheless affirmed the conventional wisdom about the loss of forest as the net result.
I'm sure that many of you have made great adaptations and gained great wisdom.
So, the aggregate numbers confirm the conventional wisdom that parliamentary amendments are more frequently accepted under co-decision than under co-operation.
They meet events with the wisdom they already possess, and that wisdom belongs to the past and is a product of a by-gone experience.
In contrast, clinical lore has become a dimension of received wisdom through which research knowledge is filtered.
The translation has value and authority because its writers and translators possess legitimacy as figures of proven power and wisdom.
He finds a counter-intuitive result that refutes non-game theoretical wisdom that parties focus their campaign resources on marginal constituencies.
Their primary duty to govern rests on their wisdom (and perhaps on their theoretical authority) in spotting coordination problems that need a solution.
Thus, spirituality may facilitate the development of transcendent wisdom by reducing entropy in consciousness.
It is to be the sun from which the college radiates, as well as the centre into which its energy, wisdom and ethos are condensed.
Rather, they encode diagnostic knowledge of a general character about individual concepts-what one might describe as the conventional wisdom about these concepts.
Dignified defiance is mostly fueled by dignity as a virtue, a strong sense of self-worth, courage, wisdom, temperance, and justice.
The criticism centres on the choice of tree species, the wisdom of monoculture plantations, and the nature of actual beneficiaries.
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Collocations withwisdom

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These are words often used in combination with wisdom.

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accepted wisdom
The acceptedwisdom is that after mesh refinement spurious solutions move away and physical solutions remain.
accumulated wisdom
In this way accumulatedwisdom would lead inevitably to rapid social betterment.
ancient wisdom
Like jurists, late medieval physicians legitimized their knowledge by relying on ancientwisdom.
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