Judgments Quotes

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

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.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

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

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.

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.

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

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