Quotes & Sayings About Not Jumping To Conclusions

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

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions — Daniel Kahneman

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump. — W.T. Purkiser

Why is it that when a woman has bruises, especially on her face, people assume they were put there through domestic violence? I'm guilty of jumping to the same conclusions myself. It's a societal assumption, unfortunately born out of too frequent reality. — Kim Holden

Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth. — Karen White

As you think, so you become ... Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. — Epictetus

Davy,
Didn't you realize that the only thing I wanted from Mark was his version of the night you,
well, removed him from the party? I know Mark is a sleaze. I'm not involved with him in any
way, but when you vanished from in front of me, what was I to think?
I don't know if you're even human. For all I knew you fly around in a flying saucer kidnapping
humans left and right. If this sort of jumping to conclusions bothers you, think how much
alternative explanation you offered.
I know you're hurt, and I guess you were hurt even more when you thought I was getting
involved with Mark again. But, dammit, you are doing your share of lashing out, yourself.
Millie
P.S. I still don't know if you are human, but I know that I care for you enough that you can
hurt me. You did. — Steven Gould

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.. — Cullen Hightower

Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality. Statistics — Daniel Kahneman

I just think we shouldn't judge her, or anyone, without trying to understand them first. That maybe we should get the full story before jumping to conclusions. Crazy notion, I know. — Marissa Meyer

Yeah well, my idea of exercising is jumping to conclusions, carrying things too far, pushing my luck. — K. Larsen

My major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions. — J. A. Jance

Jumping to conclusions, may be an indication of Borderline Personality Disorder ... I thought you should know. — Emma Paul

Based on this one experience I had, jumping to conclusions is always really stupid. — Craig Benzine

The only exercise most people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their luck. - UNKNOWN — Hal Elrod

Jumping to conclusions rarely gets us anywhere we want to be. — Angel Scott

[I]t would seem that to be incapable of sitting and watching with the mind completely at rest is to be incapable of experiencing the world in which we live to the full. For one does not know the world simply in thinking about it and doing about it. One must first experience it more directly, and prolong the experience without jumping to conclusions. — Alan W. Watts

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect more information. — Daniel Kahneman

The exaggerated faith in small samples is only one example of a more general illusion - we pay more attention to the content of messages than to information about their reliability, and as a result end up with a view of the world around us that is simpler and more coherent than the data justify. Jumping to conclusions is a safer sport in the world of our imagination than it is in reality. Statistics produce many observations that appear to beg for causal explanations but do not lend themselves to such explanations. Many facts of the world are due to chance, including accidents of sampling. Causal explanations of chance events are inevitably wrong. — Daniel Kahneman

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Experts may help assemble data, specialists may organize it, professionals may offer theories to explain it. But none of these can substitute for each person's own leap into the dark, jumping in to draw his or her own conclusions. — Charles R. Wolfe

Wait for the right, honest words from the man you're interested in before jumping conclusions. Unless he tells you he loves you, he doesn't. — Grace D. Chong

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions. — Harold Acton

Well, it's no good jumping at conclusions."
"Jump? You don't even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion. I believe if you caught the cat with her head in the cream-jug you'd say it was conceivable that the jug was empty when she got there. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions. — James Nathan Miller