Quotes About Judgment

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

Don't you stupid Aussies get it? Australia is doomed! Nothing, and nobody, can help you. You have sinned willfully after you have received knowledge of the truth.

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity of science.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?

You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.

The test of beauty is whether it can survive close knowledge.

...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory of stupid mistakes.

Hillary Clinton has a vision, she has knowledge and judgment. She is a strategic thinker, based on her experience and her connection.

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

It is hard, but it is excellent, to find the right knowledge of when correction is necessary and when grace doth most avail.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.