Judgment Error Quotes

Nor is the People's Judgment always true: The Most may err as grossly as the Few.

You cannot judge a book by its contents.

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

To those who err in judgment, not in will, anger is gentle.

Where matters of dispute are made the subject of arbitration under the forms of law. Human judgment is never unerring, and is rarely regarded as otherwise than wrong by the unsuccessful party in the contest.

God designed the stomach to eject what is bad for it, but not the human brain.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

If officials on the spot commit in good faith an error of judgment, which is worse—to support them or to throw them over?

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

anger cancels good judgement!

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

The starting-point in the brochure is not right. To my idea you are mistaken in your judgment regarding the analogy of the West-European revolution with the Russian one, regarding the conditions of the West-European revolution, that is to say the class-relations- and this leads you to mistake the cause, from which this Left Wing, the opposition, originates …. Therefore the brochure SEEMS to be right, as long as your starting-point is assumed. If, however (as it should be), your starting point is rejected, the entire brochure is wrong. As all your mistaken, and partly mistaken, judgments converge …

Nobody wants to see someone's life ruined over a small-time lapse in judgment.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.

We were required to predict a soldier's performance in officer training and in combat, but we did so by evaluating his behavior over one hour in an artificial situation. This was a perfect instance of a general rule that I call WYSIATI, "What you see is all there is." We had made up a story from the little we knew but had no way to allow for what we did not know about the individual's future, which was almost everything that would actually matter. When you know as little as we did, you should not make extreme predictions like "He will be a star."

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence? That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights, which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision? Those, who know any thing of human nature, will not hesitate to answer these questions in the affirmative.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"