Misguided Judgments Quotes

The easiest person to deceive is one's self.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

The convictions of the multitudes … are sincere convictions. They are, as we know, sometimes disastrously erroneous; but they are also disastrously honest.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.

Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.