Quotes About Judgment

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Nature, when she invented, manufactured and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do.

No man in his senses will dance.

Men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely.

Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.

History is a stern judge.

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

A decision is an action you must take when you have information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

Reason, with most people, means their own opinions.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

The soul of dispatch is decision.