Judgment Quotes - page 2

The courts must declare the sense of the law and if they should be disposed exercise will, instead of judgment, the consequences would be the substitution of their pleasure for that of the legislative body. (Alexander Hamilton)
Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. View quote
Margaret Atwood
You know why I fear people's judgment? Because I know they're judging. I know they are. View quote
Kate Winslet
Railing and praising were his usual themes and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil. View quote
John Dryden
Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or he angry with his judgment for not agreeing with me in that, from which perhaps within a few days I should dissent my self. View quote
Thomas Browne
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Don't question your wife's judgment; look who she married. View quote
Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. (Jonathan Swift)
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. View quote
Pauline Kael
But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind. View quote
Jack London
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. View quote
Will Rogers
Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together. View quote
Hannah Arendt
A judgment, for me is not the mere grasping of a thought, but the admission of its truth. View quote
Gottlob Frege
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. (William Shakespeare)
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. View quote
Theodore Parker
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions. View quote
Baron d'Holbach
Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment, for even the very wise cannot see all ends. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead the one being an innate desire of pleasure the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. View quote
Socrates