Quotes About Judgment

nemo enim umquam est oratorem, quod Latine loqueretur, admiratus; si est aliter, inrident neque eum oratorem tantum modo, sed hominem non putant.

Quid? Quod eadem mente res dissimillimas comprehendimus, ut colorem saporem, calorem, odorem, sonum? Quae numquam quinque nuntiis animus cognosceret, nisi ad eum omnia referrentur et is omnium iudex solus esset.

statuere enim qui sit sapiens vel maxime videtur esse sapientis

If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.

Dê uma boa olhada nas suas escolhas antes de culpar metade do mundo pelos seus erros.

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Americans see everything too simply—a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.

You really are an incorrigible little slut girl, aren't you?

Shakespeare say? Discretion is the better part of valor?

Worrying about what 'people are going to say' and 'what the neighbours might think' is always in the minds of working people. They aren't afraid of failure. They are afraid of success and how they would have to make excuses to their friends if it ever came their way.

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude.

Discretion's the better part of valor

Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. ( Casual Chance , 1964)

Real life is disobliging. People like to think, or feel, in black and white. Having to assess the relative values of all those intermediate greys is tiresome and perplexing.

the Buddhist scripture expresses it: Those who refuse to discriminate might as well be dead

justice may be slow and invisible, but it always renders its true verdict in the end.

IF THEY THINK those two words New York will fix them, who are we to say otherwise.

Turner had never met a kid like Elwood before. Sturdy was the word he returned to, even though the Tallahassee boy looked soft, conducted himself like a goody-goody, and had an irritating tendency to preach. Wore eyeglasses you wanted to grind underfoot like a butterfly. He talked like a white college boy, read books when he didn't have to, and mined them for uranium to power his own personal A-bomb. Still--sturdy.

He is fat and pink. On the United Elevator Co. advertisements, they airbrush away the pocks in his cheeks, the red slivers in his nose. In person he is too flesh, a handful of raw meat. Dogs have been known to follow him, optimistic.

This or this," his eye doctor asked at checkups, a choice between two lenses of different power. Elwood never ceased to marvel how you could walk around and get used to seeing only a fraction of the world. Not knowing you only saw a sliver of the real thing. This or this?

Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.