Quotes About Judgment

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss

Some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Our judgments, like our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own

And therefore I ordered him to be instantly hanged.

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

Because feeling like a fuck-up isn't about being a failure, it's about being made to feel like one.

What gives people whose whole life is a lie the right to judge me?

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

Polarization (is) a tendency for groups to form judgments that are more extreme than individuals' personal opinions.

Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.

Lack of personal morality plus "politically correct" prohibition against judging others' behavior and naming immorality sets up a social environment receptive and vulnerable to a tyrannical government. A tyrannical government transforms every aspect of the cultural day-to-day lives of everyone under its control across all areas from the educational and penal systems to fine art and entertainment dictates right on down to housing regulations and food availabilities.

My paper was a direct discussion and comparison of half-a-dozen ethical systems, concentrating on what seemed to me to be their flaws. I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were *right* and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act We do not know.

I have never been more struck by the good sense and the practical judgment of the Americans than in the manner in which they elude the numberless difficulties resulting from their Federal Constitution.

a grade can be regarded only as an inadequate report of an inaccurate judgment by a biased and variable judge of the extent to which a student has attained an undefined level of mastery of an unknown proportion of an indefinite amount of material.

Are we encouraging him to make his own judgments about what constitutes a good performance (or a desirable action) ? Are we contributing to, or at least preserving, his ability to choose what kind of person to be? Or are we attempting to manipulate his behavior by getting him to think about whether he has met our criteria? The

the most notable aspect of a positive judgment is not that it is positive but that it is a judgment.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.

No one should let himself fall slave to his own opinion.

In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!

first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt. 7:5).