Hasty Conclusions Quotes

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Snap judgments? I'd gotten over those about the time I was toilet trained. Swore off diapers and faith in the human experience all in one week.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. Man is too quick at forming conclusions. Let him but indistinctly see a thing, or even be undecided as to whether he does actually see it and he will then and there set himself to theorizing, and build immense castles of conjecture on a foundation, of whose existence he is by no means certain.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

To see the best before I have properly begun would be somewhat premature.

Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

I understand how a first impression is often just that: a quick snapshot that, on its own merit, is meaningless.

We all make snap judgments on small amounts of information. We do it all the time with online dating, deciding whether to spend time someone on the basis of a short blurb and three pics.

Rachel, Rachel, Rachel,” he said, very still and unmoving. “Always jumping to the wrong conclusion. You’re like a frog, you know.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.