Quote by Sidney Dekker

“Whoever claims to have understood everything with hindsight cannot be taken seriously.”

— Luciano Canfora

“Let people come to their own conclusions, even if it means watching them make mistakes. That way they may grow and you won’t be…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

“We judge one another by our outward actions, but in the motive underlying those actions our judgment may be widely at fault. Preoccupied by…

— The Detection Club

“Sometimes we make decisions that seem right at the time, but later, looking back, were clearly a mistake. Some decisions are right even in…

— Jill Santopolo

“We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there…

— Daniel Kahneman

“A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

— Susan Sontag

“in the course of my observation, these disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes, but they…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

“Being a critic is easy. But if the critic tries to run the operation, he soon understands that nothing is as easy as his…

— Haemin Sunim

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende