Judgment Quotes - Page 24

• Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to be effectual, must relate to operations of that power, of which a ready and proper judgment can be formed by the constituents.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Party, Responsibility, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.308, Coventry House Publishing

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• Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Battle, Littles

  William Butler Yeats (1908). “Ideas of good and evil”

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• The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

  Teacher, Three, Wonderful

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• Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.196, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

  Walter Lippmann

  Looks, Sap, Opponents

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• This President has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the President of the United States of America.

  John F. Kerry

  Regret, America, Errors

  "Would a Kerry win increase risk of terror?". Debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry at the University of Miami, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2004.

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• If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

  Chris Christie

  Political, Operations, Asks

  News conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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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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• 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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• Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

  R. D. Laing

  Views, Oneness, Progress

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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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• There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

  Anne Stevenson

  Eye, Intuition, Instinct

  ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”

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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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• If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

  Miguel

  Dream, Religious, War

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• Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Sight, Names

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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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• The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Real, Liberty, States

  "Theological-Political Treatise". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Ch. 20, That In a Free State Every Man May Think What He Likes, and Say What He Thinks, 1670.

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• Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Views, Color

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.161, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage.

  Epictetus

  Men, Action, Philosopher

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.54

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• If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Teacher, Children, Memories

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, translated by E. Lee, pp. 185-186, 1903.

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• As Iraqi forces gain experience and the political process advances, we will be able to decrease our troop level in Iraq without losing our capability to defeat the terrorists. These decisions about troop levels will be driven by the conditions on the ground in Iraq and the good judgment of our commanders, not by artificial timetables set by politicians in Washington.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Decision, Political

  Iraq Strategy Address at the U.S. Naval Academy, delivered 30 November 2005, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

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