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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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• It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

  Mark Twain

  Failure, Secret, Persons

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.116, Courier Corporation

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• There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Gossip, Competition

  Edgar Degas' notebook entry (circa 1860), as quoted in "Artists on Art: From the XIV to the XX Century" edited by Robert Goldwater, 1945.

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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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• Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

  Susan Sontag

  Oddities, Accumulation, Surrealism

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.68, Macmillan

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

  Hosea Ballou

  Should, Liberality

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• An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

  Anton Chekhov

  Artist, Criticism, Answers

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Axes, Ordinary

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

  George W. Norris

  Sympathy, Men, Prejudice

  George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.195, U of Nebraska Press

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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 painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!

  Eugene Delacroix

  Different, Would Be, Actors

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• No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

  George Henry Lewes

  Logic, Argument, Tendencies

  "Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed". Book by George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, p. 7, 1874.

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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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• When I was young, I was just about hard work. But as I got older, I did experience anxiety, doubt, judgment, and it's so easy to lose yourself for a second.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hard Work, Anxiety, Doubt

  "Jennifer Lopez: Still Wild at Heart". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. August 2, 2010.

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• If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Character, Justice, Feelings

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.50, Sophia Institute Press

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• People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Criticism, Overconfident

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• 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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• 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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• The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

  Billy Graham

  Bible, Jesus, Wrath

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• It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speech, Speak, Silent

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• Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.

  Walt Disney

  Business, Mean, Groups

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Every day is judgment day-use it.

  Brigham Young

  Use, Judgment Day

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• The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Evil, Political

  Theodore Roosevelt (1899). “Thomas H. Benton”

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• People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.

  Robert Genn

  People, Mystery

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