Quotes about Judgment
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32
— Sam Storms
Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself
— Samuel Johnson
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
— Samuel Johnson
Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
— Samuel Johnson
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
— Samuel Johnson
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
— Samuel Johnson
every man's Judgment cometh from the Lord. And be glad that it is so, for Christ is the clerk of your process, and will see that all go right; and
— Samuel Rutherford
I verily judge, we know not how much may be had in this life: there is yet something beyond all we see, that seeking would light upon.
— Samuel Rutherford
When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
— Bo Jackson
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
— Frank Herbert
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
— John Milton