Judgment Quotes - Page 27

• It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

  Clifford Stoll

  Flames, Hobbies, Acrimony

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• I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

  Edmund Burke

  Childhood, Romance, Despair

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• It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

  Edmund Burke

  Reality, Skills, Way

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• Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have

  Rahul Dravid

  Team, Hero, Mind

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• The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

  Edmund Burke

  Taste, Causes, Defects

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.19

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• Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

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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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• There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Arbitrary, Guarantees

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.112, Penguin

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• Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

  Margaret Benson

  Intellectual, Reason, Faculty

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

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• It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

  Matthew Arnold

  Winning, Men, Light

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• Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

  Lord Acton

  Errors, Standards

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.193, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

  Catherine the Great

  Common Sense, Humanity, Sound

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• Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

  Bill Brandt

  Fads, Photographer, Should

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Questioning, Motive

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• I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Believe, Form

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Common Sense

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• What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Feelings, Prejudice, Able

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• Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

  Aphra Behn

  Men, Action, Share

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.274, Delphi Classics

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• The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Names, Labels, Woods

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

  Jane Porter

  Office, Mind, May

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• Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

  Barbara Sher

  Fool, Judgmental, Can Do

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.67, Dell

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• A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Denied, One Thing

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• Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Brain, Firsts, Clients

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Light, Judging, Mind

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Wicked, Citizens, Politician

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