Quotes About Judgment

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

Given that it was not predictable, you are not to blame.

withhold judgment in the absence of evidence

A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

We cannot teach people to withhold judgment; judgments are embedded in the way we view objects.

Likewise, it is not possible to hold a situation in one's head without some element of bias.

My son, I am very disappointed in you," he said. "I never hear anything wrong said about you. You have proven yourself incapable of generating envy.

I prefer to remain a skeptic. People frequently misinterpret my opinion. I never said that every rich man is an idiot and every unsuccessful person unlucky, only that in absence of much additional information it is preferable to reserve one's judgment. It is safer. Ten • LOSER TAKES ALL—ON THE NONLINEARITIES OF LIFE The nonlinear viciousness of life.

We know with much more clarity what is bad than what is good.

My point is that wisdom in decision making is vastly more important—not just practically, but philosophically—than knowledge.

We said that mere judgment would probably suffice in a primitive society. It is easy for a society to live without mathematics—

by exposing an idea in raw form, allows it to be judged by the public.

Never cross a river if it is on average four feet deep

judged by their actions, not by the results. No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word.

I want to be broadly right rather than precisely wrong.

The policies we need to make decisions on should depend far more on the range of possible outcomes than on the expected final number.

in order to make a decision you need to focus on the consequences (which you can know) rather than the probability (which you can't know) is the central idea of uncertainty.

For Tony, the distinction in life isn't True or False, but rather sucker or nonsucker.

their intention was to bring a critical "balance" and use me as a counter to the numerous imaginative forecasts

this avoidance of small mistakes makes the large ones more severe.

Look it. Would you rather be the world's greatest lover, but have everyone think you're the world's worst lover? Or would you rather be the world's worst lover but have everyone think you're the world's greatest lover?

that professionals are significantly influenced by numbers that they know to be irrelevant to their decision

which does not require knowledge or intelligence, merely rationality in choice.

they make sure that the costs of being wrong are limited (and their probability is not derived from past data).