Quotes About Judgment

Complexity fully rendered would take too long and contain too much, thereby entangling judgment. Complexity as what you want or expect would only confirm what you think you know. You need something in between.

The issue for historians , then, is not whether we should make moral judgments, but how we can do so responsibly, by which I mean in such a way as to convince both the professionals and non-professionals who'll read our work that what we say makes sense.

Children called Joseph, Cameron, William and Jake are naughtier than those called Jacob, Daniel, Thomas and James.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

I'm not very good at handling stupid people. I must admit.

in 1835 Harvard's Jacob Bigelow had argued in a major address that in "the unbiased opinion of most medical men of sound judgment and long experience . . . the amount of death and disaster in the world would be less, if all disease were left to itself.

good judgment may require the ability to listen carefully to feedback from the body.

people on average prefer to bet on their own judgment over an equally probable chance event when they consider themselves competent about the event being judged.

He flings pros into the air like skeet, and one by one he shatters them with cons.

mother like son' is a saying so true, the world will judge largely of mother by you.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

It really is disgusting when a guy in a ball cap with a high school education is the one asking the tough questions.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

Boy handing over his report card: Of course I seem stupid to my teachers . . . they're all college graduates.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing

You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.

PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever