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Quotes About Judgment

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
~ Benjamin Franklin
No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
~ E. W. Howe
Wise men are not wise at all times.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership shows judgment, wisdom, personal appeal and proven competence.
~ Walt Disney
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
~ Evan Esar
It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Far from being a bad thing to seek advice, you must, on the contrary, do so when the matter is of any importance, or when we cannot come to a clear decision on our own.
~ Vincent de Paul
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.
~ Kenneth Tynan
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [Fr., Ce n'est pas etre sage D'etre plus sage qu'il ne le faut.]
~ Philippe Quinault
Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.
~ Philip Sidney
What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.
~ Philip Sidney
Wisdom often exists under a shabby coat.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you really want to judge of the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every fool may become a hero at one time or another. Watch a man do his most common actions; those are indeed the things which will tell you the real character of a great man.
~ Swami Vivekananda
but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.
~ Swami Vivekananda
You must exercise your own reason and judgment; you must practice, and see whether these things happen or not. Just as you would take up any other science, exactly in the same manner you should take up this science for study. There is neither mystery nor danger in it. So far as it is true, it ought to be preached in the public streets, in broad daylight. Any attempt to mystify these things is productive of great danger.
~ Swami Vivekananda
And so, as in every other thing, we are always trying to ignore the standard of another, trying to bind the whole world to our standard.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A man should not be judged by the nature of his duties, but by the manner in which he does them.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Stan Well you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl.
~ Swordfish
If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.
~ Sy Montgomery
We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it's either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.
~ Sy Safransky
This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
~ Sydney J. Harris
it calls for deciding things on their own merit, not because you read it or were told it or grew up believing it.
~ Sydney J. Harris
The people who are suspicious of certain things are the very ones who are the most capable of doing that of which they are suspicious.
~ Sydney J. Harris
But what is significant is that if you don't want to like and accept somebody, one excuse is as good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the reasons are never as 'reasonable' as we like to think they are.
~ Sydney J. Harris