Quotes About Judgment

You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.

The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. —Darwi Odrade

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.

The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes. Much better [to] rely on your own judgment, and your own mistakes.

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.

Is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly?

Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta

Only a fool imagines he's beyond the reach of his prejudices.

All persons act from beliefs they are conditioned not to question, from a set of deeply seated prejudices. Therefore, whoever presumes to judge must be asked: How are you affronted? And this judge must begin there to question inwardly as well as outwardly. — The Question from Ritual of the Courtarena Guide to Servants of the Box

Che cosa disprezzi? È da questo che ti si conosce veramente.

Idaho could hear the Tyrant in that judgment. If history had any repetitive patterns, here was one. A drumbeat of repetition. First, a Civil Service law masked in the lie that it was the only way to correct demagogic excesses and spoils systems. Then the accumulation of power in places voters could not touch. And finally, aristocracy.

a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.

You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will, free or otherwise, is concerned with the future. Thinking is the performance of the moment, out of which you use your judgment to modulate will. You are a convection center through which past prepares future. —Dwarf MacIntosh, Kelpmaster, from Conversations with the Avata

What is this forgiveness you ask? Must you always require judgment? Can't your universe merely be?

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,' Leto explained. 'To claim absolute knowledge is to becomemonstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.

Nul ne peut vraiment leur en vouloir. On ne peut que les mépriser.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. No, it was a question of fairness, a concept that went much deeper. The people upon whom judgment was passed must feel the fairness of it.

Nu v? gr?biÈ›i s? v? dezv?luiÈ›i judec??ile. Concluziile ascunse sunt adesea mai eficiente. Ele pot s? inspire acÈ›iuni ale c?ror efecte nu vor fi resimÈ›ite decât prea târziu pentru a mai fi înl?turate.

Professional legalists were absolutely prohibited from Gowachin judicial service. Let the people judge.