Quotes About Judgment

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

Rigid justice is the greatest injustice.

As dysfunctional as they may be on occasion, our theories, preconceptions, and "biases" are what make us smart.

This can sound rather grim, but it does have a positive flip-side: It suggests that our negative assessments of other people are less likely than our positive assessments to be correct, and we should give our foes another chance.

It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

Perspective gets lost in moral certainties. Which only means that no one was ever burned at the stake by a doubter.

We are taught to speak with courtesy to strangers," Farouk went on. "For we do not know the evil or the good that may be in such a person's heart." The

That night your great guns, unawares,Shook all our coffins as we lay,And broke the chancel window-squares,We thought it was the Judgment Day.

our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous

When we act on our spontaneous judgment, we are almost always better off.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact casus non faederis to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

Ignorance has never been the problem. The problem was and continues to be unexamined confidence in western civilization and the unwarranted certainty of Christianity. And arrogance. Perhaps it is unfair to judge the past by the present, but it is also necessary.

A guilty conscience, urged with the thought Of former evils, easily cannot err.

As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have an unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings.

You have two choices: Start thinking the way God and your society want you to think or be forsaken by all.

Devils are not so black as they are painted.

As it turns out, however, the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they lack a key skill called "metacognition." This is the ability to know when you're not good at something by stepping back, looking at what you're doing, and then realizing that you're doing it wrong.