Quotes About Judgment

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.

Wisdom is exercised in the choices you make.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

A true gourmet - a judge - has the wisdom to know when to stop eating.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.