Edward E. Barnard Quotes

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

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

As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.

People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

People make conclusions about somebody before they actually get to know someone.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

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

People are quick to jump to conclusions.

Your greatest mistakes will happen because of impatience.

When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

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

Decisions made quickly were almost always regretted quickly.

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

A lot of the letters that are coming in - a lot of them are queries or comments - are one sentence long... These are from Twitter. And if you look at the nature of those one sentence letters, most of the time it's something that came to somebody's mind - somebody walking down the street had a thought and sent it out. If they thought about it for two minutes they would not have sent it.

I probably thought that about most of the things I did. But you wind up in situations where you have to make decisions very quickly, and you just go for it a lot of the time.

It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.

Never make a promise in haste.

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

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

The thinking of the world leads us to think shallowly and act too quickly.