Quotes About Judgment

Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out

When sufficiently oblivious to their status as audience, the observers of a finite game become so absorbed in its conduct that they lose the sense of distance between themselves and the players. It is they, quite as much as the players, who win or lose. For this reason the audience absorbs in itself the same politics of resentment that moves players to show they are not what they think others think they are. The audience is under the same constraint to disprove the judgment.

I looked him up and down. There was a lot of "up" to look at. This kid was tall, all right.

If the moral senses can conflict with one another and with what prudent action requires under particular circumstances, then living a good life requires striking a delicate balance among those senses and between them and prudent self-interest.

Half [of] us approve of other people's daughters having children out of wedlock, but hardly any of us approve of that for our daughters. [We] don't wish to be 'judgmental,' unless [we are judging] something we care about, [like] the well-being of the people we cherish

When we decide what to do, we in effect proclaim our wish that our conduct be made into a "universal law." Therefore when a rational being decides to treat people in a certain way he decrees that in his judgement, this is the way people ought to be treated. Thus if we treat him the same way in return we are doing nothing more than treating him as he has decided people are to be treated.

Es pura arrogancia de nuestra parte tratar de juzgar la conducta de otros pueblos. Debemos adoptar una actitud de tolerancia hacia las prácticas de otras culturas.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

Uncertainty is a key aspect of human reasoning. Without uncertainty, we would never doubt ourselves or our decisions. We would be certain that we're right all the time. It's this certainty that can make an AI's ability to learn turn brittle over time. But if an AI is uncertain and capable of doubt, it can begin to judge itself, to question whether an action or decision will have the consequence it desires and test it more thoroughly.

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. —Revelation 16:6

Don't be stupid." "I think that's what I'm best known for.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Ef you take a sword an' dror it, An' go stick a feller thru, Guv'ment ain't to answer for it, God'll send the bill to you.

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back.

Independence is important to intelligent decision making for two reasons. First, it keeps the mistakes that people make from becoming correlated. Errors in individual judgment won't wreck the group's collective judgment as long as those errors aren't systematically pointing in the same direction. One of the quickest ways to make people's judgments systematically biased is to make them dependent on each other for information.

so, then Lucius DeBeers was vainer than DuClare had given him credit for. "More errors of judgment like this will not be tolerated," he concluded. "From anyone. You realize that?

That which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God."10 Then I said, "Shame, you tell me what men are and what they will do, but you tell me nothing about God. On the day of judgment, I will not be asked what men thought of me; nor will I be judged by what you and the world think. But I will be judged by God's Word.

This seems to be one of the evil quirks of human nature, to condemn others for things you do yourself.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

Because, what I am trying to say—what I was thinking in the car from Antwerp last night—good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. Scary idea!