Rash Judgment Quotes

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong.

Never make a permanent decision about a temporary situation.

I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.

The mechanism of modern business is so delicate that extreme care must be taken not to interfere with it in a spirit of rashness or ignorance. Many of those who have made it their vocation to denounce the great industrial combinations which are popularly, although with technical inaccuracy, known as "trusts," appeal especially to hatred and fear. These are precisely the two emotions, particularly when combined with ignorance, which unfit men for the exercise of cool and steady judgment..

I've always been able to make erroneous decisions very quickly.

When a fellow ain't got much mind, it don't take him long to make it up.

I think as in so many cases, the people who criticize, do so without a complete knowledge of the facts.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.

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.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.