Quotes About Judgment

When people show you who they are ... believe them!

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

John Adams was a farmer, Abraham Lincoln a small town lawyer. Plato and Socrates were teachers. Jesus was a carpenter. To equate wisdom and judgement with occupation is at best insulting.

Wisdom and foolishness are practically the same. Both are indifferent to the opinions of the world

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

The result proves the wisdom of the act.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.

Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.