Quotes About Judgment

I am not. I am certain of the things that matter. Kindness and honor are always good. Do not build God in your own image, with your doubts and fears, your need to judge and condemn, your need for safety, and to be right whatever the cost to others, and ultimately to yourself. Let your soul be still, and know that God is never capricious, never cruel and never wrong. It is our understanding that stumbles. Even the cleverest of us are yet children, and the wisest of us know that.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

She was not engaging in any broad or sweeping challenge when she insisted that her own status be acknowledged as not only "equal" to that of any comparable male scientist, but to be quite indistinguishable as well, because to her the emphasis was solely upon scientist, not upon the adjective. She was not declaring war on behalf of women's rights, but demanding on behalf of science that those who served it be judged solely and wholly upon their abilities.

Don't worry if they say you're crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It's a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly.

Who are they" "Fallen angels who were not good enough to be saved, nor bad enough to be lost" say the peasantry.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

She refused to let common sense cloud her judgment.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

You are where you are, you don't have to judge it, although some of the old poems might be more interesting than some I might write tomorrow.

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses.

Is that what they think, then? That loners have no friends?

Some in the outside world might call our traumas trivial. Were you gang-raped? Sold into slavery? Imprisoned in a concentration camp? Did you accidentally tweet a naked picture of yourself to twenty million strangers? No? Then stop whining! They would not understand that it is possible to be annihilated by a smirk, a scowl, an empty threat.

It is society as a whole that assigns value and prestige to what people do;

I don't adhere to the idea that you don't make moral judgments. I think history is a moral profession. We don't just look back and say, oh, and here is how they slaughtered the innocents, and go move on.

Improving decision quality is about increasing our chances of good outcomes, not guaranteeing them.

Thinking in bets starts with recognizing that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is what thinking in bets is all about.

When people quit on time, it will usually feel like they are quitting too early, because it will be long before they experience the choice as a close call.

If you feel like you've got a close call between quitting and persevering, it's likely that quitting is the better choice.

Self-serving bias has immediate and obvious consequences for our ability to learn from experience.

And this feeling that the result of the decision tells you something significant about the quality of the decision process is so powerful that even when the description of the decision is identical (you quit your job and take a new position), your view of that decision changes as the quality of the result changes.

When people result, they look at whether the result was good or bad to figure out if the decision was good or bad.

RESULTING A mental shortcut in which we use the quality of an outcome to figure out the quality of a decision.

Experience is supposed to be our best teacher, but sometimes we draw a connection between outcome quality and decision quality that is too tight.