Flawed Judgment Quotes

He [John Adams] is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. That is all the ill that can be said of him.

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

It is perfectly American to be wrong.

The wisest of the wise may err.

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

I'm always surprised when the corporate world does stupid things, because they're often not very stupid in hindsight.

The very best have had their calumniators; the very worst their panegyrists.

He means well for his country, is always an honest man, often a wise one, but sometimes and in some things absolutely out of his senses.

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time.

Nobody sets out to be evil. They're insecure, and they make bad decisions.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

All men are liable to error; and most men, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Sometimes we misinterpret, sometimes we misunderstand, sometimes we make mistakes.

It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible.

Every career thing I do can't be perfect and sometimes my decisions are wrong.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

I know people who say Hollywood broke her heart, and all that, but I dont believe it. She was very observant and tough minded and appealing, but she adored and trusted the wrong people. She was very courageous-you know the book Twelve Against the Gods? Marilyn was like that, she had to challenge the gods at every turn.

Envy, in fact, is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations.

Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.