Quotes About Judgment

Sexual promiscuity and sexual liberation were not one and the same.

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

They believe the military is immoral and intellectually inferior

The classic private bitterness of the public zealot. A man who wanted to take out his own inadequacy on other people. And

One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to gather evidence for her case; spending some quality time with the Thesaurus; and then taking a large blunt hammer and pounding the message home.

Today's investors have forgotten Graham's message. They put most of their effort into buying a stock, a little into selling it - but none into owning it. Certainly, Graham reminds us, there is just as much reason to exercise care and judgment in being as in becoming a stockholder.

Analysis is concerned primarily with values which are supported by the facts and not with those which depend largely upon expectations.

What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework.

you will be wiser to form your own ideas of the value of your holdings, based on full reports from the company about its operations and financial position.

Do not enter upon an operation—

Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it—even though others may hesitate or differ.

After all," he may say, "the rules you have outlined are pretty simple and easygoing. A highly trained analyst ought to be able to use all his skill and techniques to improve substantially on something as obvious as the Dow Jones list. If not, what good are all his statistics, calculations, and pontifical judgments?

It is still true that they may choose between maintaining a simple 50–50 division between the two components or a ratio, dependent on their judgment, varying between a minimum of 25% and a maximum of 75% of either.

A criterion based on adjectives is always ambiguous.

Conversely, sound procedure would call for reducing the common-stock component below 50% when in the judgment of the investor the market level has become dangerously high.

defining what is important solely by what can be measured is a bad idea - like looking for lost keys not down a dark sidewalk where they were lost, but across the street under the lamppost where the light is better.

That was a strange way of looking at it, to see a funeral as a popularity contest in which final judgment was passed on a man's life by the number of people who attended, by the size of the crowd. But it was also strangely appropriate since many people did judge the worth of others by the quantity of their social relationships.

Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just a few paces from the fires of hell. I only need repent, they say, and I will go to heaven and live forevermore in the blessed company of the saints. And I would rather burn till time itself burns out.

A trial relied heavily on oaths, but both sides would bring as many liars as they could muster, and judgment usually went to the better liars or, if both sides were equally convincing, to the side who had the sympathy of the onlookers.

When a man must choose between nothing and everything he has small choice.

How can a god disapprove of a good hump?

Be mad enough, his father once said, and they will either lock you away or make you a saint.

Many folk are clever, lord Uhtred, but very few are wise.