Quotes About Judgment

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

'Tis folly to be wise.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.

It is no judgement of a thing outside yourself to say it makes you ill. The wise reader knows that every pronouncement is, to some degree, an act of self-exposure; the book you find too challenging might only show how ill-equipped you are to face its challenge.

Those who are looking to seek power must make wise judgements.

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

A wise man knows when to go 'head and back off so you gotta pick and choose your fights. I know how to pick and choose.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

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

When I married Munna, people didn't give our marriage even two months to survive. But we lasted for 12 years. The first 10 were magical. He's a fair man, a wise man.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.