Quotes About Judgment

Jane looked up at him. He was not an ugly man, not mean or hateful-looking. But you couldn't go by appearances. Some of the nicest-looking people were really very bad.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas

A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people's vices and faults.

As we have seen before, this finely tuned judgement also allows Johnson to discriminate deftly between the different senses of a particular word. Thus there are sixteen senses of 'world', ranging from 'the great collective idea of all bodies whatever' to 'the earth; the terraqueous globe'

A person's conscience will object and accuse when an action may be harmful to themselves and others.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they would appear to different grades of intelligence, different classes of people, different sections of the country. More than once this many-sidedness of his mind saved the country from ruin.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

Moreover, events often move too quickly to allow for precise calculation; leaders have to make judgments based on intuitions and hypotheses that cannot be proven at the time of decision. Management of risk is as critical to the leader as analytical skill.

Para el líder, la gestión del riesgo es tan crítica como la capacidad de análisis.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

As for faces - you may look into them to know, whether a man's nose be a long or a short one.

It is often said that it is better to leave too early rather than too late, whether it is your professional career, a party, or life itself.

Managing is about nuance as much as it is about decisiveness.

A good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.

Some music really does suck!

Somewhere, someone isn't impressed by your looks. Not all men jump through the hoops of your fire. You're unbelievably boring to more people than you'll ever know.