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# Judge from firsthand experience. Accepting someone...
> Judge from firsthand experience. Accepting someone else's account of a person or event as reality spreads bias and misunderstanding. Direct knowledge, or consistent reports from many people, is a sounder basis for judgment.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Building Bridges Across Systems of Power - Workbook|Building Bridges Across Systems of Power]]
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“Judge from firsthand experience. Accepting someone else's account of a person or event as reality spreads bias and misunderstanding. Direct knowledge, or consistent reports from many people, is a sounder basis for judgment.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-judge-firsthand-experience-sounder-basis-judgment
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