Quotes About Judgment

But it was a nice way of ignoring another simple truth—that people changed, with or without wars, and that we sometimes don't know people as well as we think we do, that the worst errors in judgment often result from imagining we understand what has escaped us entirely.

Golf was not a game he'd ever particularly wanted to take up. Nobody he liked had ever played golf, and a lot of the people he disliked intensely played all the time.

Why does a rich country like ours blame people who have nothing for its problems?

the worst errors in judgment often result from imagining we understand what has escaped us entirely.

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, but you treated me like a man...

High performers pick the shortest path to the right evidence to make decisions that matter.

When the performance system is made clear, decision-making becomes more accurate.

Butler: Do you think I look deaf? William: Whadda I know. You look like you could be anything.

there are always more than two sides to a story, that nobody is ever as bad as people think, and nobody is ever as good as people think.

That cigar-chomping hemorrhoidal bigot who sits astride the riding mower on the two and a quarter acres beside you, he is smart enough to spend his IRA on this stock, so why can't you? Do you want him to have something you do not?

Titles are just constructs to help us label one another to quickly assess what someone is worth without thinking too much.

What about a compromise? I'll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I'll apologize.

What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace. When Nico realized it was Jason, he was disappointed. Then he felt angry with himself for feeling that way.

Don't judge someone until you've stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Not that my regularly scheduled life was so great, but it beat getting judged unworthy by twelve bearded guys named Erik.

The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice

A little secret, Magnus. There is no good and evil. There's only capable and incapable. I am capable.

Ah, but I'm wise ," Athena said. "Wise enough to make you do it instead.

It's hard to look in charge when you're hunched over like Quasimodo.

Judging from her wide eyes, I guessed the answer was, No, and does hallucinations run in the family?