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Quotes About Judgment

Moshe Dayan would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.
~ Ariel Sharon
We are in training to be all right no matter what our experience is. This is not to say that there will not be countless times when we will judge the pain in our back or our breath - that is the nature of a wobbly mind - but we will increasingly see clearly that we do not want to go down this route.
~ Arinna Weisman
There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.
~ Aristophanes
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.
~ Aristophanes
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
~ Aristotle
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
~ Aristotle
The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.
~ Aristotle
It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
~ Aristotle
Now each man can give a good judgment upon matters with which he is acquainted, and is in such cases a good judge. In each particular case, therefore, he judges best who has been taught the matter in question, and on all matters he whose education has been universal.
~ Aristotle
On a similar principle they consider that to know right and wrong is nothing clever, because what the laws speak about it cannot be hard to understand. But this is not justice, except incidentally: it is when actions are done or awards are made in a certain way that they become just.
~ Aristotle
It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge.
~ Aristotle
Most of the things about which we make decisions, and into which therefore we inquire, present us with alternative possibilities.
~ Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
~ Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
~ Aristotle
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
~ Aristotle
Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle
you did it, not because you're being punished. He can tell the difference too!
~ Arleta Richardson
racism refers to the belief in a natural hierarchy that places blacks at the bottom, and the tendency of whites to judge their own worth by distance from that bottom.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I'm not judging. You're probably a horribly shallow mess to begin with. This is just a blip on the evil in your life and heart, and I wish I
~ Armand Rosamilia
Disseram que eu fora insensível; que manifestara um sentimento muito próximo da indiferença e do desdém. Ah!, como as pessoas não entendem nada das pessoas.
~ Armando Baptista-Bastos
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.
~ Armistead Maupin
She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time
~ Armistead Maupin
Ein Rezensent kommt mir manchmal vor wie der Mann, der eine Wolke beobachtet und ihr übelnimmt, daß sie nicht die Gestalt des Kamels angenommen hat, das er jeden Tag im Spiegel sieht.
~ Arno Schmidt