Quotes About Judgment

When Tetlock was asked at a public lecture to forecast the future of forecasting, he said, "When the audience of 2515 looks back on the audience of 2015, their level of contempt for how we go about judging political debate will be roughly comparable to the level of contempt we have for the 1692 Salem witch trials."49

The main danger in using these forms is that a more-grammatical-than-thou reader may falsely accuse you of making an error. If they do, tell them that Jane Austen and I think it's fine.

by conflating profligacy with evil and asceticism with virtue, the moral sense can sanctify pointless displays of sacrifice.

Many hours of law-school argumentation have been spent on what to do with a man who stabs a corpse thinking it is his sleeping enemy, or whether it makes sense to charge a shooter with attempted murder if the nearest hospital is five minutes away and his victim survives, but to charge him with murder if the nearest hospital is fifteen minutes away and the victim succumbs.

there's nothing common about common sense.

People demonize those they disagree with, attributing differences of opinion to stupidity and dishonesty.

After noting Snow's "utter lack of intellectual distinction and . . . embarrassing vulgarity of style," Leavis scoffed at a value system in which "'standard of living' is the ultimate criterion, its raising an ultimate aim.

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The law may be an ass, but it is a disinterested ass, and it can weigh harms without the self-serving distortions of the perpetrator or the victim.

I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.

When Tetlock was asked at a public lecture to forecast the nature of forecasting, he said, "When the audience of 2515 looks back on the audience of 2015, their level of contempt for how we go about judging political debate will be roughly comparable to the level of contempt we have for the 1692 Salem witch trials.

To repeat: equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group.

people esteem others according to how much time or money they forfeit in their altruistic acts rather than by how much good they accomplish.

Sensing the necessity to be wise and honest in order to succeed, he flees vice, or at least his demeanor exhibits decency and seriousness so as not to arouse any adverse judgment on the part of present and future acquaintances

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

It is not through judgment that the good in people can be reached, but through love and faith.

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it's terrifying to people and they think you're a monster.

I stop paying attention because as much as I love beauty, I hate stupidity, and seeing the two combined pisses me off.