Errors In Judgement Quotes & Sayings

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. — Antonio Porchia

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. — Jim Rohn

The Sorting Hat is notorious for refusing to admit it has made a mistake in its sorting of a student. On those occasions when Slytherins behave altruistically or selflessly, when Ravenclaws flunk all their exams, when Hufflepuffs prove lazy yet academically gifted and when Gryffindors exhibit cowardice, the Hat steadfastly backs its original decision. On balance, however, the Hat has made remarkably few errors of judgement over the many centuries it has been at work. — J.K. Rowling

One day, everyone stopped over-thinking. We started thinking just as much as we should, and not any more than necessary. There was no more misunderstandings whatsoever. Minor disagreements were forgotten, not turned into proof of larger things. Trivial errors of speech or judgement were just as important as items on the breakfast menu: you chose waffles and I chose eggs and it was a god damn miracle. — Amelia Gray

panic inspires gross errors in judgement (Kinsey Millhone) — Sue Grafton

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine. — Nikola Tesla

The only way to bear the overwhelming pain of oppression is by telling, in all its detail, in the presence of witnesses and in a context of resistance, how unbearable it is. If we attempt to craft resistance without understanding this task, we are collectively vulnerable to all the errors of judgement that unresolved trauma generates in individuals. It is part of our task as revolutionary people, people who want deep-rooted, radical change, to be as whole as it is possible for us to be. This can only be done if we face the reality of what oppression really means in our lives, not as abstract systems subject to analysis, but as an avalanche of traumas leaving a wake of devastation in the lives of real people who nevertheless remain human, unquenchable, complex and full of possibility. — Aurora Levins Morales

The media is the right arm of anarchy. — Dan Brown

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue. — Ming-Na Wen

To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging. — Aristotle.

It would be a sad error in judgement to mistake me for a corpse. — Kane

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling. — Jeanette Winterson

At night the Garden was a place of shadows and moonlight, where you could more clearly hear all the illusions that went into making it what it was. — Dot Hutchison

Ranulf's heart did a strange stutter at the way she defended him. He longed to intervene, to stop the questioning. — Melanie Dickerson

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. — Robert Scheer

There's only so many times a person can call you a pea-brain before you just snap and slap the shit out of them. — Angela Roquet

Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast. — Charles Dickens

Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. — Colin Firth

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right. — Marian Wright Edelman