Quotes About Judgment

Bad eyes are only one bane of clear vision: bad assumptions can be just as blinding.

I HAVE NEVER FOR ONE INSTANT SEEN CLEARLY WITHIN MYSELF. HOW THEN WOULD YOU HAVE ME JUDGE THE DEEDS OF OTHERS? —MAURICE MAETERLINCK

The gut was not a long-range organ. Its grasp of culpability degraded exponentially with distance; there

He raised one eyebrow. "Now I have made you angry with me. I gave you credit for more sense. It is true that she is prettier than you, and nobody in his right mind would deny it. Mere prettiness, however, is not always sufficient to attract a man of sense and experience. What you have, and what Miss Yarcombe lacks and will probably always lack, is character. A doll may be pretty. A woman should be something more.

Her mesele bizim ölçülerimizi al?r.

Tuhaf" dedi, benim bu k?z? gözlerim ?s?r?yor. Ben dedim ki, e?er güzellerin vücutlar?nda göz ?s?r?klar? iz b?raksayd?, bütün yüzleri, boyunlar?, bacaklar?, ayaklar? çürük içinde kal?rd?.

Ironically, I've spent years writing sensitive articles for women. Still, one lady wrote: "I have always viewed you with suspicion, knowing that if you were pushed to the limit, if you were forced to make a decision, you weren't really one of us after all. Deep down inside, you are a guy.

Mick Jagger does it and, well, of course he does—he's Mick. Phil Collins does it and what an arsehole.

I keep thinking he can't be all bad ... and then he opens his mouth .

God must have a weird sense of values, and if there's a Judgment Day, as some folks think, He's going to have a lot to answer for.

HEAVEN: The big apartheid in the sky.

Clean shoes are no indication of clean feet, especially if worn on the head.

People are looking for someone to tell them what to do and whether what they're doing is good or bad.

The time to make your mind up about people, is never.

The time to make up your mind about people, is never.

Unlike Jesus, Satan, he felt, would not scorn him, but

The closer he drew toward Satan, the more estranged he became from society, as well as his parents. Richard began to conceive of Satan as a friend, an ally he could be himself with, share his inner thoughts with, and not be judged by.

Halpin finished his summation on July 21. The people had presented 139 witnesses and 537 pieces of evidence.

Stupid is as stupid does.

As they entered, Richard glowered at them. Cynthia Haden couldn't look him in the eyes. She felt guilty about having convicted him. She thought the Hernandezes were so woefully inadequate that Richard hadn't gotten a fair shake. "He was sold down the river," she would later say, and would make correcting that "injustice" her life's work.

People not used to the world … are unskillful enough to show what they have sense enough not to tell.

Once we know the outcome of something, that knowledge skews our perception of what we thought before we knew the outcome: that's hindsight bias. Baruch Fischhoff was the first to document the phenomenon in a set of elegant experiments.

When you combine the judgments of a large group of people to calculate the "wisdom of the crowd" you collect all the relevant information that is dispersed among all those people. But none of those people has access to all that information. One person knows only some of it, another knows some more, and so on.

This approach, built on the "wisdom of the crowd" concept, has been called "the crowd within." The billionaire financier George Soros exemplifies it. A key part of his success, he has often said, is his mental habit of stepping back from himself so he can judge his own thinking and offer a different perspective—to himself.