Judgment Quotes - Page 36

• Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

  Bram Cohen

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Risk

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• If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them

  Stephen King

  Fighting, Rights, Should Have

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• Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Plato, Philosophy

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• We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

  Jerry Bridges

  Wrath, Justice, Might

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• It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.

  Ben Jonson

  Art, Lying, Giving

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3178, Delphi Classics

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• If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Succeed, Achieve, Ifs

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• No Judgment = No Expectations: That's my motto.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Expectations, Motto, My Motto

  "Arlo Guthrie celebrates 50 years at 'Alice's Restaurant'". Interview with Tammy Paolino, www.usatoday.com. November 12, 2015.

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• Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

  Alan Hirsch

  Fame, Halls, Subjective

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid value judgment is whether you're going to last, and that tells you that you are, for a bit at least.

  Martin Amis

  Strong, Unanswered Questions, Lasts

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

  George Washington

  Giving, Judging, Liberty

  George Washington (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: pt.1. Official letters relating to the French war and private letters before the American revolution: March, 1754-May, 1775”, p.415

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• It is not right, my fellow-countrymen, you who know very well all the crimes committed in our name. It's not at all right that you do not breathe a word about them to anyone, not even to your own soul, for fear of having to stand in judgment of yourself. I am willing to believe that at the beginning you did not realize what was happening; later, you doubted whether such things could be true; but now you know, and still you hold your tongues.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Names, Soul

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• Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

  Myles Munroe

  Men, Justice, Democracy

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Place in God's Kingdom: Your Original Purpose for Existence”, p.31, Destiny Image Publishers

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• "Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Teacher, Choices, Levels

  James MacGregor Burns (2012). “Leadership”, p.772, Open Road Media

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• We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.

  Steven Pressfield

  Self, Mind, Negative

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• One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.

  Thomas Sowell

  School, College, People

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• Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.

  Darrell Johnson

  Ends, Situation

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• How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical judgment?

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Style, Culture, Kitsch

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• We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

  John Calvin

  Hands, One Day, Scripture

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.814, Jazzybee Verlag

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• New York establishment isn't really a literary establishment. It's just a collection of broken down old newspaper hacks who pass judgment on books that they have not even read, with assuredness of Jehova.

  James Purdy

  New York, Book, Broken

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [W]omen's magazines know that more than two thirds of women pray each day so they tend to promote "spirituality" which is warm, soft, fuzzy, and "me-centered, " rather than religion, which is definitely not. Shot with a soft-focus lens, spirituality in women's media has morphed into another method of stress reduction. Lulling and inoffensive, spirituality is more about taking long walks and buying $65 Jo Malone scented candles than making ethical decisions or moral judgments. It's another way to calm ourselves, refresh ourselves, or applaud ourselves.

  Myrna Blyth

  Stress, Two, Long Walks

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• Though one should live through all the time from Adam and all the time to come before the judgment day doing good works, yet he who, energising in his highest, purest part, crosses from time to eternity, verily in the sight of God this man conceives and does far more than anyone who lives throughout all past and future time, because this now includes the whole of time. One master says that in crossing over time into the now each power of the soul will surpass itself. . . .

  Meister Eckhart

  Past, Men, Sight

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• When we set aside the burden of judgment, then our hands and hearts are free to serve others with joy. Such service is truly the way of the Christian.

  Chieko N. Okazaki

  Christian, Heart, Hands

  Chieko N. Okazaki (1995). “Aloha!”, Shadow Mountain

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• To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

  Thomas Sowell

  Principles, Judgmental, Violation

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• The higher orders [of angels] are presumed to be closer in their nature to God and to function in roles that serve God more directly than the lower orders, which tend to the administration of the physical universe and the service of humankind. Some orders are associated with particular divine qualities - Seraphim with Love, Cherubim with Wisdom, Thrones with Judgment.

  David Connolly

  Angel, Order, Quality

  David Connolly (1993). “In Search of Angels: A Celestial Sourcebook for Beginning Your Journey”, Perigee

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• Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Drama, Thinking, Views

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2164, Library of Alexandria

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