Judgment Quotes - Page 12

• Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths.

  Robert J. White

  Attitude, Belief, Opinion

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• We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected Judiciary inferior to Congress or the President in making policy judgments. That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Country, Judging, President

  Speech to American Enterprise Institute, www.justice.gov. January 17, 2007.

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• We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Believe, Past

  "Secretary of State Colin Powell". Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 25, 2004.

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• There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Lying, Exercise, Degrees

  "Cosmotheoros". Book by Christiaan Huygens, Book 1, p. 10; As quoted in the English translation "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd" (1722), 1698.

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• As a Texas loyalist who followed Bush to Washington with great hope and personal affection and as a proud member of his administration, I was all too ready to give him and his highly experienced foreign policy advisers the benefit of the doubt on Iraq. Unfortunately, subsequent events have showed that our willingness to trust the judgment of Bush and his team was misplaced.

  Scott McClellan

  Team, Texas, Iraq

  "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception". Book by Scott McClellan, April 21, 2008.

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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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• Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows how to govern everything concerning us. Nothing is impossible for Him, but everything is subject to His will. We must also realize that everything He does is for our benefit and we must accept it with thankfulness...as from a benefactor and a good lord even if is troublesome. For everything is done with right judgment, and God, Who is merciful, does not overlook even the smallest sadness that we suffer.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Sadness, Compassion, Words Of Wisdom

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• I think it's interesting that there's always a dark cloud hanging over my character, in every movie. Even in Fat Man and Little Boy, where it's a real dark cloud. In Mask, it's more the judgment of others, but it's still a threat.

  Laura Dern

  Real, Character, Dark

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• The next time you make a snap judgment about a situation, take a few moments to understand an opposing viewpoint.

  David J. Lieberman

  Snap Judgment, Viewpoints, Next

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• No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Order, Self

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• Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness.

  Hosea Ballou

  Should, Liberality

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• Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sleep, Eye, Habit

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.80, Stanford University Press

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• Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Character, White, House

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The First thing to understand about the universe is that no condition is "good" or "bad." It just is. So stop making value judgments. The second thing to know is that all conditions are temporary. Nothing stays the same, nothing remains static. Which way a thing changes depends on you.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Reality

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.67, Penguin

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• How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons

  Pietro Metastasio

  Errors, Ignorant, Wonder

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• Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Confidence, Self, Realization

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• Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Air, People

  William Shakespeare (1867). “Tragedies. Poems”, p.333

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• I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Faults, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, Edmond Malone (1826). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew”, p.165

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• So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Sea, Judging

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare”, p.362

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• This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

  Joseph Addison

  Party, Moral, Spirit

  Joseph Addison (1749). “The Spectator”, p.170

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• Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Hate, Two, Giving

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• Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

  William Cowper

  Names, Fascination, Surrender

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.282

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• He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.

  William Cowper

  Men, Speech, Ambassadors

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.141

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• In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Friendship, Real, Party

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.52

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