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Quotes About Judgment

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.
~ Wilfred Trotter
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
~ Giordano Bruno
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
~ John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
~ Larry Niven, Ringworld
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.
~ Isaac Asimov
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
~ Edward Gibbon
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error, and is personal.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.
~ Milton Friedman
There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
~ Arthur Helps
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
~ Alexander Pope
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness.
~ Charles Kettering
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.
~ Barack Obama
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
I publish things that in my judgment are good science.
~ Susan Fiske
I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
~ J. K. Rowling
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.
~ Genereux Philip
A man of logic is a man of sin.
~ Mike Norton
Perhaps friendship doesn't divert sound judgment.
~ J.D. Tew, The Ghost of Sephera
Maybe the Society was right all along. From the very beginning, that's what they called her. A time bomb.Tick, tick, tick.
~ Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls
Suspicion leads to bias, and bias doesn't lead to truth.
~ Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
You pays your money and you takes your choice.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World