Quotes About Judgment

If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person."

As I may or may not say to the Lord on Judgment Day, "You ask a lot of questions for someone who has so much explaining to do."

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir.

A whole made of good images can be detestable.

Everyone in a codependent society has to have someone to look down upon in order to feel good about themselves.

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.

On ev'ry hand it will allow'd be,He's just—nae better than he should be.

O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, An' ev'n devotion!

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us An' foolish notion: What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion!

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.

Il campo @author di un Javadoc ci dice chi siamo. Siamo gli autori. E una caratteristica degli autori è che hanno dei lettori. In effetti, è responsabilità degli autori riuscire a comunicare bene coi loro lettori. La prossima volta che scriverete una riga di codice, ricordatevi che voi ne siete gli autori, e che scrivete a dei lettori che vi giudicheranno per quello che avrete scritto.

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.

The thoroughly guilty man has an advantage over all of us; he cannot be found more guilty of anything, since he has already found himself guilty of everything. This may sound like an absurdity - causing oneself extreme pain in order not to feel any number of little pains of lesser guilts and shames, but it has its own logic. A man more easily adapts to what he inflicts upon himself; as to his own judgement, he is already committed to it and willing to live with it.

Nonetheless, it is reasonable to conclude that Fletcher did not lose the Battle of the Coral Sea at the tactical level, despite Morison's judgment to the contrary, because he was sufficiently cautious most of the time and sufficiently lucky when he was not. Hardly a glamorous way to win a battle, but victory has never been a beauty contest.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

Attacking a person, rather than the person's position or argument, is usually easier as well as psychologically more satisfying to those who divide the world into two classes of people—those who agree with them and are therefore good and right, and those who disagree with them and are therefore evil and wrong.

Our natural way of thinking, of making judgments, of identifying causal connections is to jump to conclusions on flimsy evidence.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.