Quotes About Judgment

Understand the other before judging with your self-esteem.

What you do is not art. Said the one who doesn't know how to do anything.

When a lie speaks the truth, should we judge by appearance or attitude?"

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.

The mullet is the reason why people hate you. They are sick of looking at your nappy wheat sack. Nobody wants to look at you with that mullet on your head. Why don't you cut that mullet, you numbskull?

He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?" -- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood

A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

There is no use in trying to judge everything but the condition you are in right now. You are absolutely delusional if you think that you know anything right now.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

when it comes to fashion, even the most sensible woman is not to be trusted.

Gossip is the confession of other people's sins.

To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Unfortunately, this world is full of people who are ready to think the worst when they see a man sneaking out of the wrong bedroom in the middle of the night.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.

Intuitive predictions need to be corrected because they are not regressive and therefore are biased.

Whenever we can replace human judgment by a formula, we should at least consider it.

So this is my aim for watercooler conversations: improve the ability to identify and understand errors of judgment and choice, in others and eventually in ourselves, by providing a richer and more precise language to discuss them. In at least some cases, an accurate diagnosis may suggest an intervention to limit the damage that bad judgments and choices often cause.

When Vul and Pashler let three weeks pass before asking their subjects the same question again, the benefit rose to one-third the value of a second opinion.