Quotes About Judgment

We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.

Let us leave the labels to those who have little else wherewith to cover their nakedness.

Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.

lot of folks in the Church today have litmus tests for religious they like and religious they do not like and approve of or do not approve of and one of them is the habit.

Divine judgment is intended not to destroy but to awaken people to the devastating truth about their lives.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

If you see a white man running, you think "He must be late for a meeting." When you see a black man running, you think, "I'm calling the cops. Hey, somebody stop his black ass!"

The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don't react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.

If any external thing causes you distress, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your own judgment about it. And this you have the power to eliminate now. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47

We can choose to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be troubled by it; for things themselves have no power of their own to affect our judgments.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

Our criticisms of others therefore have a side benefit. They provide an unintentional glimpse at what is ugliest within us.

Axel smiled. "They say that good judgment comes from experience. And experience come from bad judgment." Alec laughed...

It appears that so-called common sense is a most uncommon commodity nowadays.

But if we can't compete with technology when it comes to storing answers, questioning—that uniquely human capacity—is our ace in the hole. Until Watson acquires the equivalent of human curiosity, creativity, divergent thinking skills, imagination, and judgment, it will not be able to formulate the kind of original, counterintuitive, and unpredictable questions an innovative thinker—or even just your average four-year-old—can come up with.

Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

A lot of performers, if they go to bed with a woman on the road, they think of her as a slut. As a person and a man, what does that make them then? Lowlife or high living, you give as good as you get, and I don't think women's sex lives have a thing to do with the kinds of human beings they are.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Do you want to know the biggest difference between Consequences and Wisdom? Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first.

But one of the true marks of a veteran is not how he catches a wave, but whether he knows when and how to get off the wave.

When a man believes that deciding the fate of others  will grant him control of his own life, he has left the path of reason.