Quotes about Judgment

It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.

When you suspend your faculty of independent judgment, you suspend consciousness. To stop consciousness is to stop life.

No, you do not have to live; it is your basic act of choice; but if you choose to live, you must live as a man—by the work and the judgment of your mind.

It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.

To judge means: to evaluate a given concrete by reference to an abstract principle or standard. It is not an easy task; it is not a task that can be performed automatically by one's feelings, "instincts" or hunches. It is a task that requires the most precise, the most exacting, the most ruthlessly objective and rational process of thought.

I saw that any man's desire for money he could not earn was regarded as a righteous wish, but if he earned it, it was damned as greed

Thus, if a man is attracted to a woman of intelligence, confidence and strength, if he is attracted to a heroine, he reveals one kind of soul; if, instead, he is attracted to an irresponsible, helpless scatterbrain, whose weakness enables him to feel masculine, he reveals another kind of soul; if he is attracted to a frightened slut, whose lack of judgment and standards allows him to feel free of reproach, he reveals another kind of soul.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

Poor thing, thought Garnett, to have to commit yourself so hard to one moment of poor judgment.