Quotes About Judgment

What good were these experiments?" went the skeptic's question. To which Franklin replied, "What good is a new-born babe?" In some versions he continued: "He may be an imbecile, or a man of great intelligence. Let us wait for him to complete his studies before judging him.

Cases of Conscience

The censure of fools or knaves," he would remind his wife, "is applause.

Make a list of pros and cons and allow it to marinate for a few days. Gradually jettison the entries that equal each other—canceling out multiple arguments that amount to a single one in weight—and endorse the column in which a balance remains.

He was unflinching, but touched too on his secret weapon, one especially valuable in 1771: "The opinion of others," he assured his former father-in-law, "I very little regard.

In Europe pedigree might be all, "but it is a commodity that cannot be carried to a worse market than to that of America, where people do not enquire concerning a stranger, what is he? but what can he do?

Few were innocent aside from those who had been hanged.

Judging by the edicts passed to regulate commerce alone, Franklin stood ready to conclude that "an assembly of wise men is the greatest fool upon earth.

But the worst of it was, all the third-rate poets emerged unscathed; being third-rate, they didn't know good poetry from bad and consequently had no inkling of their crushing defeat.

Pirx had long ago observed that a man could be judged better by his behavior toward robots than toward his fellow man.

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first. -Description of Doomsday

Everybody judges from the point of view of his own inadequacy.

Yes, there are women who report feeling madly in love with their babies the second they lay eyes on them. These women are either very lucky or lying or needy, and I don't trust them.

On the whole, a woman isn't keen on her mother-in-law if she's controlling, disapproving, or interfering. Mine is a triple major in the ings and took extra night classes in calculating just for kicks. The woman is a hate nerd.

It was a newsflash to me that dating as a pre-thirty divorcette was as bad as having herpes.

SAINT PETER: I hated your ass to look at it. SAINT MATTHEW: And I looked at you, Peter, as a dumb, ignorant fisherman.

CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I'm not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don't know. Did anybody tell you you weren't? CUNNINGHAM: Must be nice to have all the answers.

CUNNINGHAM: Mother Teresa, if abortion is so terrible, then how come I'm not in Hell? MOTHER TERESA: I don't know. Did anybody tell you you weren't? CUNNINGHAM: Must be nice to have all the answers. MOTHER TERESA: Must be hard to have only questions.

Scientific "facts" are taught at a very early age and in the very same manner in which religious "facts" were taught only a century ago.… But science is excepted from criticism. In society at large the judgment of the scientist is received with the same reverence as the judgment of bishops and cardinals was accepted not too long ago.… science has now become as oppressive as the ideologies it had once to fight. (ibid., p. 182)

Try to be a filter, not a sponge.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone

Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were, no one would ever talk to you?

El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita mérito a la gente