Quotes About Judgment

It would be better to miss than to turn out the wrong thing.

It's not something I want to judge Steve by.

There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.

Ingenuity without wisdom is dangerous.

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

And the Scripture assures me that at the last day we shall not be examined by what we thought, but what we did . . 

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals or would sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation

Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it is permissible to see, hear, read, and know, it is no wonder that moral judgment is so much more common than constructive thought.

Almost no two experiences are exactly alike, not even of two children in the same household. The older son never does have the experience of being the younger. And therefore, until we are able to discount the difference in nurture, we must withhold judgment about differences of nature. As well as judge the productivity of two soils by comparing their yield before you know which is in Labrador and which in Iowa, whether they have been cultivated and enriched, exhausted, or allowed to run wild.

It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went down.

Ain't no shame in bein' a grocer but it's bitch and a half if they think that that's all you're good for.

mortality is a living critique of the divine

Same thing's wrong with all men," the white woman said in a husky voice. "Thinkin' about a woman's butt and then wonderin' why they got shit for brains.

What's that got to do with a few gray hairs?" Angelo wanted to know. "Girl see one or two and she thinks maybe the man done aged enough to calm down, make somethin' outta himself. She willin' to let him look so maybe she could see what his prospects are like. That way a man like me might get a great night or a lifetime of pot roasts, fat babies, and halfhearted regrets.

It must be noted that once a person is said to be black by the white world, then that is usually the most important thing about him; fat or thin, intelligent or stupid, criminal or sportsman - these things pale into insignificance. Actually I've found out that a lot of whites literally cannot tell one black from another.

All great masters in any line think positive thoughts, which they put into action with intensive desire tested and tempered by balanced judgement.   All

What!" said Bois-Guilbert, "so soon?" "Ay," replied the preceptor, "trial moves rapidly on when the judge has determined the sentence beforehand.

It is wonderful how people's judgment is blinded by their passions, and how apt we are to find plausible and even satisfactory reasons, for doing what our interest, or that of the party we have embraced, strongly recommends.

he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen

God's commands are arbitrary if He has no reason to command one act rather than another; but, if He does have reasons for His commands, then His reasons rather than His commands are what make acts immoral.

A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.

But then it dawned on me that the opinion of someone who is always wrong has its own special utility to decision-makers.

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong.

You should never test the depth of the water with both feet.