Judgment Quotes - Page 11

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.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

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.

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

Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

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

Judgments of adequacy involve social comparison processes

We should use our judgment before coming to a decision.

I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.

If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

I love nature but against my better judgment.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?

I am so deaf I am debarred from hearing all the time articulation and have to depend on the judgment of others.

It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

History passes the final judgment

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.