A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

"The bounty of the sea…"

"The bottom of the sea."

And with that disarming memory, Anna Urbanova was suddenly describing how as a girl she would steal away from her mother at dusk and wind her way down the sloping streets of her village so that she could meet her father on the beach and help him mend his nets. And as she talked, the Count had to acknowledge once again the virtues of withholding judgment.

After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we've just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel?
For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only
our consideration, but our reconsideration.

I have not read the book, but i came across these paragraphs from A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles.
I am currently reading Rules of Civility written by the same author.

I couldn't agree more with this quote. It strikes a chord with me that we deserve reconsideration and that sometimes withholding judgment can be a virtue.