“The problem with comprehension is, it often comes too late.”
“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”
“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
“Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.”
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. (Justice Frankfurter)”
“Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.”