Judgement Quotes - Page 16

• A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Book, Inspiring Love

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Exercise, Voters

  "Profiles in Courage". Book by John F. Kennedy and Ted Sorensen, p. 15, 1956.

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• Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Miracle, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Men, Miracle

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• Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Men, Law

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• It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Mistake, Character, Errors

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought".

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• We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Government, Judging, Happy Accidents

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• The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge

  William Cowper

  Judging, Fool, Significant

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.165

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• The death penalty is reserved for people who do not

  Paul Simon

  People, Death Penalty, Penalties

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• Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

  Matilda Joslyn Gage

  Church, Judgment, States

  Matilda Joslyn Gage (1980). “Woman, Church, and State: The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex”

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• The watering of a garden requires as much judgement as the seasoning of a soup.

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely

  Rain, Garden, Rivers

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• It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Judging, Causes

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.182

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• Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Humorous, Complaining

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Judging, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• Judgment is forced upon us by experience

  Samuel Johnson

  Judgment

  Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.502

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• A man cannot speak but he judges himself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Judging, Speak

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.294, Library of America

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• If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Teaching, Responsibility, Order

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• (3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM...?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.

  Raymond Keene

  Chess, Study, Form

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• O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.393, Penguin

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• The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.

  Alexander Kotov

  Attitude, Learning, Self

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• The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

  Diogenes

  Gratitude, Mind, Shadow

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• Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.

  B. C. Forbes

  Perfect, Decision, Life Is

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• A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.

  James Luther Adams

  Views, Atheism, Spirituality

  James Luther Adams (1986). “The Prophethood of All Believers”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Jesus will judge us not only for what we did, but also for what we could have done and didn't.

  George Otis

  Christian, Jesus, Judging

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• Until we let go of our mental images of who we are or who we should be, our vision remains clouded by expectation. But when we let go of everything, open ourselves to any truth, and see the world without fear or judgement, then we are finally able to begin the process of peeling off the shell of false identity that prevents our true self from growing and shining in to the world.

  Paul Buchheit

  Letting Go, Self, Expectations

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