Quotes About Judgment

To rank economic activities as more or less preferable is ideology, not science: a judgment that is driven by values and predilections, not by hard data.

The key, Deschamps said, is to maintain self-control and to know when it's okay to foul and when you are "too far up the referee's nose" to get away with it. "It's something you feel. It's a feeling. It's a form of intelligence.

Woodrow Wilson claimed that history endows us with the "invaluable mental power we call judgment.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

The clerk says to me, "If you're pregnant, you shouldn't eat cold cuts." Now that my belly shows, I'm public property. Strangers speak to me all the time. They tell me how I should do everything.

There are no good guys or bad guys. Not really

A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won't sit on a cold stove either.

It's weird to hear this again - to hear how I was perceived by people before they got to know me. Some of the girls thought I was a bitch - aloof, distant - but now they see the truth.

I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes." Hunter S. Thompson

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

You should have been a poet. I was (Gesture towards his rags.) Isn't that obvious?

The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.

Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

When I am dead I would rather people thought me better than I was instead of worse; but if they think me worse, I cannot help it and, if it matters at all, it will matter more to them than to me.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.

we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do. If a man has done enough in either painting, music, or the affairs of life, to make me feel that I might trust him in an emergency he has done enough

If it was not such an awful thing to say of anyone, I should say that she meant well.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case. God has written all the books.

It is far safer to know too little than too much.  People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.