It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these men that are gone from us, for there is nothing that shall convince them but judgment.
~By Donald Cargill ~
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
~By John Woolman ~
You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.
~By Tracey Gold ~
A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.
~By Belva Lockwood ~
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
~By Al Stewart ~
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
One of the cruelest judgments sustained against me is that I have spoken out as a recovered alcoholic to stimulate my acting career.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
~By Haile Selassie ~
I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.
~By Sean Paul ~
In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
~By Bob Graham ~
I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
~By Jerry Stiller ~
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
~By John Podesta ~
For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
~By Gene Tierney ~
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
~By Mario Puzo ~
None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
~By Mike Tyson ~
I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth.
~By Bob Edwards ~
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
~By John Owen ~
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
~By David O. Selznick ~
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
~By Al Gore ~
I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
~By Randy Harrison ~
Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
And I argued with that intelligence estimate and I think it is a responsibility of policymakers to use their best judgment on the basis of the intelligence they've received.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
~By Helen Rowland ~
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
~By Titus Maccius Plautus ~
My own judgment of how the world is gonna end is that there will be a country led by a madman that will build a nuclear bomb with so much force, so much power, that it will be dropped somewhere on the face of this earth and that the earth will lose its place.
~By Evel Knievel ~
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
~By Josh Billings ~
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
~By Rutherford B. Hayes ~
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
~By Paul Valery ~
Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.
~By Matthew Fox ~
The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
~By Ernest Dimnet ~
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
~By Learned Hand ~
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
~By Pauline Kael ~
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
~By Edmund Burke ~
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
He will bring us all, rich and poor, white and black, to his judgment seat.
~By Jupiter Hammon ~
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
~By Wayne Dyer ~
As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
~By Emily Greene Balch ~
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
~By Fanny Burney ~
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
~By Will Rogers ~
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
~By Charles Hodge ~
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
~By Richard P. Feynman ~
Everyone should get their news however they want to and in whatever form they want. I'm not going to sit back in judgment of other people and the way they do it.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
Do you not yet understand what has made woman what she is? Then see what the sickly taste and perverted judgment of man now admires in woman.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
~By Thomas Mann ~
You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
~By Oliver Stone ~
Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
~By Euripides ~
I am outraged that a House member has tried through this provision to breach the traditional confidentiality of individual Americans' tax returns. There is no reason for this measure, and this last-minute act violates all principles of judgment and common sense.
~By John Warner ~
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
~By Jim Rohn ~
I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.
~By Janet Reno ~
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
~By William P. Leahy ~
Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
~By Archibald Cox ~
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
~By Walter Wriston ~
If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.
~By Robert Casey ~
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
~By Russell Simmons ~
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
~By Alvin Toffler ~
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.
~By William Cowper ~
The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
~By Salvatore Quasimodo ~
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
~By Sophocles ~
Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public.
~By Norm Coleman ~
It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
To make a coverage decision, doesn't one have to make a medical judgment?
~By John Paul Stevens ~
It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
~By Anson Jones ~
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
~By John Lubbock ~
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
~By William Shakespeare ~
In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.
~By Jim Bakker ~
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
~By Walter Bagehot ~
The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
~By Bobby Rahal ~
I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.
~By Richard Land ~
If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
~By Bernard Baruch ~
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Be curious, not judgmental.
~By Walt Whitman ~
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
~By Elihu Root ~
Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.
~By Thomas Keller ~
In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.
~By David Kay ~
AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.
~By Mary Whitehouse ~
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