Terry McMillan Quotes

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

It's very easy to listen to one comment and make a snap judgment.

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

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

The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists that the failure to explain everything perfectly negates all that is explained.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance.

People are quick to jump to conclusions.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Liberals have a set of folk theories that are fallacious. One of them comes from the Enlightenment, and the assumption is that you are supposed to be logical. They assume all you have to do is tell people the facts and they will reason to the right conclusion. This is utterly ridiculous. Thought is mainly metaphorical. The frames trump all the facts.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions.

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

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

To expect reason is where the fallacy lies.

anger cancels good judgement!

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

The person who demands a sign and at the same time has already determined that anything that cannot be explained scientifically is meaningless is not merely stacking the deck; he is losing at his own game.