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Quotes About Judgment

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
~ Will Rogers
Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.
~ John Dickinson
...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.
~ Audre Lorde
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
~ Tracey Emin
When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
~ Marianne Moore
Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
~ Carl Sagan
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.
~ Daniel Gilbert
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
~ Alain de Botton
When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.
~ Jennifer Lopez
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I'm one of the few candidates that actually goes out and talks in public, so I say a lot of things based on my experience, my judgment as an environmental health physician, so I say a lot of stuff.
~ Jill Stein
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes experience trumps assumption.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.
~ Paul Bettany
In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.
~ Paul Reubens
As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.
~ Tilda Swinton
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
~ Thomas Browne
With caution judge of probability. Things deemed unlikely, e'en impossible, experience oft hath proved to be true.
~ William Shakespeare
Judgment is forced upon us by experience
~ Samuel Johnson
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
~ James Madison