Quotes About Judgment

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

What gown and what head-dress she should wear on the occasion became her chief concern. She cannot be justified in it. Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim...

Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.

If they like it, it serves four; otherwise, six.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Intellectual courage is the foundation of good judgment. It is a balance between the strength of conviction and flexibility.

...but yet they grumbled. Such is human-nature. The man who drinks beer at home always criticizes the champagne, and finds fault with the Burgundy when he is invited out to dinner.

DEATH... To stop sinning suddenly.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

often a mountain decision is a molehill in retrospect— and sometimes vice versa later on when we reflect

The toughest part of a diet isn't watching what you eat. It's watching what other people eat.

Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.

Happiness is lost by criticising it; sorrow by accepting it.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

...we find what he says true, as far as we have experienced, and we can judge no further but by larger experience — for axioms in philosophy are not axioms till they have been proved upon our pulses. We read fine things, but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices. There are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Religions are like farts — yours is good but everyone else's stinks.

I'm silently judging your font choice.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

You may feel that you are only patching up the house a little, so that it will be more comfortable to live in, but what you are really doing is inviting good temper, cool judgment, a happy heart, and the joy of life to come and dwell with you.

A clean house is the sign of a boring person.

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel