Uninformed Decisions Quotes & Sayings

Adulthood is hell. — H.P. Lovecraft

You might think that treatments like group therapy after breast cancer would now be standard. Guess again. Affiliation is not a drug or an operation, and that makes it nearly invisible to Western medicine. Our doctors are not uninformed; on the contrary, most have read these studies and grant them a grudging intellectual acceptance. But they don't believe in them; they can't bring themselves to base treatment decisions on a rumored phantom like attachment. The prevailing medical paradigm has no capacity to incorporate the concept that a relationship is a physiologic process, as real and as potent as any pill or surgical procedure. — Thomas Lewis

The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their collective wisdom will be smarter than an expert's. But if you can assemble a diverse group of people who possess varying degrees of knowledge and insight, you're better off entrusting it with major decisions rather than leaving them in the hands of one or two people, no matter how smart those people are. — James Surowiecki

I'm a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian. — Steve Irwin

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. — George Ade

This was no figment of his imagination.
This was flesh, blood and pure sin in a dress. — Savannah Stuart

Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control. — Garry Kasparov

She's the fire in my frozen heart. The hello in my long good-bye. The best goddamn thing that ever happened to my shithouse life. — Lia Riley

It takes a great deal to make a successful American, but to make a happy Venetian takes only a handful of quick sensibility. The — Henry James

There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety. — Mary Karr

The Principle of Last Responsible Moment means waiting to make a decision until you need to. In general, early and potentially uninformed decisions have the potential to hurt you far worse than waiting to make a decision later. By waiting, you have the ability to allow the problem to more fully reveal itself and have a better sense of all the dependencies and risks involved. — Anonymous

Politicians and bureaucrats are substituting their uninformed, largely political decisions for those of the marketplace. Their past miscalculations demonstrate that they do not and cannot possess the information, knowledge, means, and discipline to manage the economy. — Mark Levin