Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
~By Charles D. Broad ~
In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?
~By Renee Vivien ~
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
~By John Drinkwater ~
A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
~By Marshall Field ~
And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
~By Salmon P. Chase ~
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
~By Daniel Webster ~
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
~By Robert Frost ~
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
~By Ismail Merchant ~
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
~By Sophocles ~
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
~By Shimon Peres ~
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
~By William Howard Taft ~
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 ~
They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judgmental. There's nothing wrong with horror movies. I enjoy watching them. The main reason I turn a part down is if I think I won't be good.
~By Casey Affleck ~
Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.
~By Bob Packwood ~
If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.
~By Joanna Southcott ~
Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath.
~By Paul Williams ~
Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.
~By William Penn ~
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
~By John W. Gardner ~
AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves.
~By Mary Whitehouse ~
Be curious, not judgmental.
~By Walt Whitman ~
The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.
~By Lord Patrick Devlin ~
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
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 ~
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
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 ~
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 ~
I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.
~By Jerry Stiller ~
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
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 have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
~By Al Gore ~
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
~By Christian Lous Lange ~
As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
~By Dorothy Day ~
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
~By William Shakespeare ~
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 ~
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
~By Dale Turner ~
Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.
~By Matthew Fox ~
Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.
~By Willie Stargell ~
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 ~
The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.
~By Julie Walters ~
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
~By Tacitus ~
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
~By Asa Gray ~
I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
~By Charlotte Gainsbourg ~
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
~By John Lubbock ~
I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.
~By Neil Young ~
Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
~By Felix Frankfurter ~
If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.
~By William Lilly ~
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
~By Richard Whately ~
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
~By Philip Stanhope ~
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
~By Russell Simmons ~
The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.
~By Georgia Harkness ~
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
~By John Henry Newman ~
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
~By Edwin Meese ~
The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.
~By Dianne Wiest ~
For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mohammedans, and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole world.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
~By Al Stewart ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
~By Erykah Badu ~
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.
~By John Edwards ~
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
~By Stephen Jay Gould ~
We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
~By Lillian Gordy Carter ~
I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.
~By Juan Goytisolo ~
At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.
~By George Whitefield ~
It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
~By Barry Commoner ~
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
~By Aeschylus ~
The pride of life hath corrupted the judgment of others, and perverted them in the way of religion.
~By George Gillespie ~
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.
~By John Clayton ~
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 ~
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
~By Irwin Shaw ~
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 ~
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 ~
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
~By Nancy Lopez ~
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
~By Will Rogers ~
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
~By George Santayana ~
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
~By Alec Guinness ~
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
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 ~
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 ~
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