Judgment Bias Quotes

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

We want to be treated equally and not judged off our skin color.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.

When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

... the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, orthe dulness [sic] of our own jokes.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

People will always have their opinions on how hard you trained, especially when they only see you on fight night.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

We must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles.