Judgment Errors Quotes

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Never assume people's motives. It's the easiest way to find yourself upset over nothing or misjudging people

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Often I think of personal behavior and judgment errors as being superficial wounds.

Predominantly, crimes and horrible, horrible, horrible judgment don't have to do with sociopaths. It has to do with people who are not capable of maintaining or managing their frailties.

It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

We've lost common sense.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent

Smart people are no different than anyone else. Sometimes they exercise bad judgment, like we all do.

From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.

We perceive through our senses a person, a situation or an event, and in an instant, we project our mental models - our fears, background and experiences - onto that perception. This often results in cognitive errors, which means we judge and respond incorrectly.

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very often willing to make intuitive diagnoses even when they're very likely to be wrong.

I'm like anyone; I make a lot of my assumptions about actors I don't know from what I read about them. And then I'll find those judgments are often completely confounded when I meet them in real life.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.