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• Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

  Socrates

  Judging, Answers, Four

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

  Aeschylus

  Strong, Memories, Writing

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

  Walt Mossberg

  Trying, Snap Judgment, Conclusion

  "Critical Mass" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. May 14, 2007.

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• Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.

  Neil Postman

  Mistake, Believe, Political

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• You can tell a man's taste in literature by his judgment in knowing what not to read.

  Evan Esar

  Men, Knowing, Literature

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• He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Heart, Men, Marching On

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.42

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• God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hands, Issues, Deeds

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1910). “The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne...: Tragedies: The Queen Mother; Rosamond; Chastelard; Bothwell; Mary Stuart; Locrine; The Sisters; Marino Faliero”

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• The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past.

  Sophocles

  Wise, Wisdom, Past

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• Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Giving, Mind

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.218, Penguin

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• Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Eye, Men, Years

  Arthur Hugh Clough, F. H. Langman (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign, and you and I will stand there. I durst not touch that subject. Take it into your own hearts, and think about it, a kingdom, a judgment-seat, a crown, a gathered universe; separation, decision, execution of the sentence.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Thinking, Decision

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

  James Martineau

  Men, Voice, Looks

  "Hours of Thought on Sacred Things". Book by James Martineau, p. 190, 1879.

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• There is no man on earth who can give a final judgment on what the most beautiful shape may be. Only God knows.

  Albrecht Durer

  Beautiful, Men, Giving

  "Mathematics, Education and Philosophy: An International Perspective". Book by Paul Ernest, 1994.

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• And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.

  Randall Jarrell

  Children, Book, Heart

  Randall Jarrell (1956). “Selected Poems”

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• Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

  Ken Danby

  Instinct, Conscious, Nurture

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• The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Children, Answers

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• [I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

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• I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Thinking, Wit, Response

  Interview with Phong Bui, brooklynrail.org. March 4, 2014.

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• Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

  William Penn

  Wit, Orators

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

  William Shenstone

  Pupils, Wit

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.159

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• The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Artist, Demand, Dull

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• I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Comfort, Events

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson, United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission (1944). “The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress”

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• You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.

  Neil Postman

  Thinking, Judging, Judgement

  Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.245, Delta

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• In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  United States, Adequate, Should

  "Justice Ginsburg's Dissent". www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2000.

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• This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

  Bernard de Mandeville

  Pride, Names, Quality

  Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.37, Jazzybee Verlag

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