Quotes about Judgment
A lot of people think I'm just an athletic thug.
— Stephen Jackson
My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and the obligations of an oath require of me a particular course. Under such circumstances, whether I sink or swim on the tide of popular favor is, to me, a matter of inferior consideration.
— John Tyler
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
— St. Augustine
Rome has spoken; the case is closed.
— St. Augustine
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
— St. John Chrysostom
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