Judgment famous quotes

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
-- Al Stewart

#Future #Judgment #Trumpets

I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern are in fact the timelessly necessary characteristics of all and any moral judgment, of all and any selfhood.
-- Alasdair MacIntyre

#Facts #Moral #Judgment

To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
-- Albert Camus

#Judging #Judgment #Breathe

N'attendez pas le jugement dernier. Il a lieu tous les jours. Do not wait for the last judgment. It happens every day.
-- Albert Camus

#Waiting #Lasts #Judgment

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
-- Albrecht Durer

#Care #Judgment #Diligence

To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Judgment #Wit #Admission

Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.
-- Alex Garland

#Sticks #Opinion #Judgment

Wit and judgment often are at strife.
-- Alexander Pope

#Judgment #Strife #Wit

Judgment of eye, speed and attack are the basis of victory.
-- Alexander Suvorov

#Eye #Victory #Judgment

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.
-- Alfred P. Sloan

#Fortune Cookie #Finals #Judgment

Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.
-- Allen Frances

#Tests #Diagnosis #Judgment

When you're afraid of someone's judgment, you can't connect with them. You're too preoccupied with the task of impressing them.
-- Amanda Palmer

#Tasks #Judgment #Impress

Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Lambs #Morality #Judgment

I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Heart #Atheism #Judgment

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.
-- Andrew Ferguson

#Hazards #Common #Judgment

Judgment is judgment, whether you're obese, or too skinny, or not athletic enough.
-- Anna Kournikova

#Athletic #Skinny #Judgment

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
-- Anne McCaffrey

#Inspirational #Compassion #Judgment

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Eye #Intuition #Judgment

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
-- Anselm Kiefer

#Ideas #Paradise #Judgment

Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
-- Archibald Cox

#Country #Weakness #Judgment

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. ... Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value - a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.
-- Arnold Schoenberg

#Unqualified #Judgment #Intrinsic Value

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
-- Augustus Toplady

#Men #Hands #Judgment

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
-- Ayn Rand

#Prayer #Eye #Judgment

Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgment for your own.
-- Ayn Rand

#Temptation #Facts #Judgment

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
-- Ayn Rand

#Art #Reality #Judgment

This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health.
-- Barack Obama

#Doctors #Important #Judgment

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.
-- Barbara Branden

#Exercise #Moral #Judgment

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
-- Barbara Sher

#Fool #Judgmental #Judgment

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.
-- Bebe Neuwirth

#People #Snap Judgment #Judgment

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
-- Beck

#Judgment

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Silence #Speech #Judgment

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with
-- Benjamin Hoff

#Clever #Looks #Judgment

Conscience without judgment is superstition.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Superstitions #Judgment #Conscience

Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.
-- Bill Brandt

#Fads #Photographer #Judgment

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
-- Bill Parcells

#Motivational #Sports #Judgment

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.
-- Bill Withers

#Wisdom #Looks #Judgment

Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.
-- Billy Graham

#Spirit #Judgmental #Judgment

Judge not before you judge yourself. Judge not if you’re not ready for judgment.
-- Bob Marley

#Judging #Judgment #Ready

His judgments are just; His mercy without limit; His power to compensate beyond any earthly comparison.
-- Boyd K. Packer

#Limits #Judgment #Mercy

Here's to today, slowing down, suspending judgment, and breast strokes through chaos.
-- Buddy Wakefield

#Today #Chaos #Judgment

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.
-- Camille Paglia

#Historical #Ignorant #Judgment

The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.
-- Carl Jung

#Half #Judgment #Intellect

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Men #Judgment #Sensibility

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
-- Carre Otis

#Mean #People #Judgment

True tolerance is not a total lack of judgment. It's knowing what should be tolerated, and refusing to tolerate that which shouldn't.
-- Charles Colson

#Knowing #Tolerance #Judgment

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
-- Charles Francis Richter

#Earthquakes #Three #Judgment

Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Mind #Firsts #Judgment

The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce

#Reality #Impossible #Judgment

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
-- Charles Stubbs

#Witty #Humorous #Judgment

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.
-- Charlie Fowler

#Climbing #Skills #Judgment

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.
-- Charlotte Gainsbourg

#Afterlife #Judgment #Protect

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.
-- Chris Christie

#Political #Judgment #Operations

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
-- Chuck Jones

#Justice #Vengeance #Judgment

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Mean #Acceptance #Judgment

To embody a character, you have to lose all judgment about them.
-- Clemence Poesy

#Character #Judgment

You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject.
-- Clint Eastwood

#Way #Judgment #Should

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.
-- Colin S. Smith

#Heart #Judgment #Christ

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.
-- Condoleezza Rice

#Hard Work #Today #Judgment

You can't enter a contest emotionally charged. It clouds your judgment, it clouds your reaction.
-- Conor McGregor

#Clouds #Mma #Judgment

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
-- Cormac McCarthy

#Men #Covenant #Judgment

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.
-- D. A. Carson

#Looks #Want #Judgment

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.
-- Dagobert D. Runes

#Judgment #Mark #Thinker

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
-- Dan Gelber

#Self #Defense #Judgment

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.
-- Daniel Gilbert

#People #Criticism #Judgment

There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.
-- Daniel H. Wilson

#Choices #Judgment #Made

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
-- Daniel Webster

#Inspirational #Littles #Judgment

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.
-- David O. Selznick

#Good Day #Rue #Judgment

After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair.
-- David Petraeus

#Years #Married #Judgment

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.
-- David Romtvedt

#Grace #Tolerance #Judgment

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.
-- Dean Koontz

#Inspirational #Imagination #Judgment

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
-- Debbie Harry

#Issues #Humanity #Judgment

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
-- Dee Hock

#Data #Facts #Judgment

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.
-- Dianne Wiest

#Way #Cash #Judgment

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#Love Is #Judging #Judgment

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.
-- Doris Lessing

#Advice #Independence #Judgment

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.
-- Douglas Hurd

#Past #Judgment #Enjoyable

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
-- Edgar Rice Burroughs

#Dull #Judgment

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.
-- Edward Blake

#May #Judgment #Intention

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
-- Edwin Meese

#Decision #Judgment #Accepting

To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
-- Eleanor Perenyi

#Garden #Optimism #Judgment

My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
-- Elena Kagan

#Would Be #Judgment

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#Responsibility #Judging #Judgment

I would not trust a mouse to a woman if a man's judgment could be had.
-- Elizabeth Gaskell

#Trust #Judgment #Mice

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so.
-- Emily Greene Balch

#Judging #Too Much #Judgment

And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
-- Enoch

#Flesh #Judgment #Holy

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
-- Erich Fromm

#Dream #Judgment #Awake

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
-- Ernest Dimnet

#People #Judgment

The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.
-- Ernest Holmes

#Criticism #Judgment #Condemnation

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
-- Ethel Waters

#Missing #Quitting #Judgment

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.
-- Eugene McCarthy

#Kind #Judgment #Instruments

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.
-- Federico Fellini

#Moral #Censorship #Judgment

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.
-- Francis Quarles

#Judging #World #Judgment

The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#World #Jeering #Judgment

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
-- Frank Carlucci

#Judgment

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

#Causes #Blame #Judgment

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.
-- Gabrielle Roy

#Mind #Engagement #Judgment

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
-- Gail Collins

#President #Judgment #Reason

Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.
-- Gary Zukav

#Giving #Judgment #Stinginess

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
-- Gene Tierney

#Years #Judgment

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Genius #Definitions #Judgment