Quotes About Judgment

Since sane people find the insane impenetrable and irreducible, they consider themselves the sole owners of rationality.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

And – yes – it is a truth universally acknowledged that if an unexceptional man declares himself to a woman of his fancy, she will immediately start to look on him in a more favourable light and find his unexceptional qualities less of a handicap.

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?

People are very quick to ridicule others for showing fear. But we rarely know the secret springboards behind human action. The man who shows great fear today may be tomorrow's hero. Who are we to judge?" Audie Murphy, most decorated soldier of World War II, Congressional Medal of Honor winner.

It had been very well done, Ronicky decided, Blondy had acquitted himself with just the right edge to his voice. He had not been sickeningly acquiescent. Neither had he been stupidly defiant. But

over and over, you would like to be recognized according to your own self, your own person, your own heart's inclination-but they always ask only what you have done, and really, if you look at it rationally, they have nothing else by which they can judge your state of mind except the manifestations of that state of mind.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber.

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Am I making this decision because it's smart or because a majority says it's smart?

Nimitz remarked that when he sent Spruance out with the fleet, "he was always sure286 he would bring it home; when he sent Halsey out, he did not know precisely what was going to happen." Halsey's boldness was in doubt seldom, his judgement and intellect often.

All the seemingly positive valuations and judgments of ressentiment are hidden devaluations and negations.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

We live in a world of shadows ... we are not what we are, but what is said of us and what we read in others' eyes.

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything," said Henry Ward Beecher.

from impulsive and ill-considered actions; the other is

Since you make them evil or good by your own thoughts about them, it is the ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.

Rumors were nothing more than blunted swords of simple minds and wagging tongues.

We all need to have confidence in how we look and who we are. God made us in his image. Who are we to judge his work?