Quotes About Judgment

If you are reading an article that sucks, put it down and don't pick it back up. If you go to a movie and it's worse than Matrix III, get the hell out of there before more neurons die. If you're full after half a plate of ribs, put the damn fork down and don't order dessert.

The books Superforecasting (by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner) and How to Measure Anything (by Douglas W. Hubbard) have some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions. And Decisive (by Chip Heath and Dan Heath) explains four of the biggest judgment errors (like framing your decision too narrowly, or letting temporary emotions cloud your judgment) and gives tips for combating them.

If I have nothing positive to say, I don't say anything.

all the works of the believer are alive and all the works of the unbeliever are dead, evil, and damnable,

Granting that you have more money than others, and that you don't deserve such wealth—but stopping there—allows you to settle the score by paying your taxes and advocating more redistribution. This reductive attitude toward inequality has the added comfort of justifying nasty judgments about the other side.

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red

Self-Righteousness

Each thinks he or she is more righteous than the other. Each

What sins and weaknesses in the other person do you need to consider as you decide what your next move will be? In

We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free. If we did not pay for plumbing or auto repair, we would not expect to drink water or drive cars. Why then should we form our political judgement on the basis of zero invetsment? We get what we pay for.

Achamos natural que paguemos por um encanador ou um mecânico, mas procuramos por nossas notícias de graça. Se não pagarmos por encanadores ou mecânicos não esperaremos beber água ou dirigir um carro. Por que, então, deveríamos formar nosso julgamento político com base em zero investimento?"(p. 77)

What to read? Any good novel enlivens our ability to think about ambiguous situations and judge the intentions of others.

We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free. If we did not pay for plumbing or auto repair, we would not expect to drink water or drive cars. Why then should we form our political judgement on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.

A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better.

Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.

They handled hundreds of cases at a time, at a pace of sixty per hour or more; the life or death of an individual human was decided in a minute or less. In a single night the Leningrad troika, for example, sentenced to death 658 prisoners of the concentration camp at Solovki.55

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.

Every aspect of life should be judged soberly and objectively. To hate someone just because of this or that religious belief, or because the color of his skin is different from yours – this is contrary to sober human logic. It's the person who matters, not his race, religion or color.

Nie nale?y os?dza? ?ycia innych ludzi. Nawet je?eli kto? umar? w m?odym wieku na zapalenie j?der, to mo?e jego los w?a?nie w ten sposób si? dope?ni?.

Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

he knows that it's impossible to tell a wolf from a man if he keeps his chin up and his teeth clean.