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Judgment Quotes


"I do not take constructive criticism from people who have never constructed anything."



"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."


"The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment."


"In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail."


"Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment."


"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."


"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination."


"You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that."


"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."


"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."


"You can judge me all you want, but it's just ridiculous coz we're both part of the same universe. Let's just ride the horses into the meadow and let them roll in the delightful grass."


"Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit."


"Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom."


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


"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."


"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment."


"An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle."


"In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties."


"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth."


"Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system."


"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."


"If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped."


"Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath."


"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."



"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us."


"What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men of God, others use the new laws of anti-religious anger to tear down men of God."


"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie."


"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."


"Every day comes with a host of opportunities but also distractions. You need to develop good judgement in the decisions and choices you make."
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