Carl von Clausewitz Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Powerful, Character, Sea

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.107, Princeton University Press

• The first, the supreme, the most far-reaching act of judgment that the statesman and commander have to make is to establish ... the kind of war on which they are embarking.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, War, Firsts

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.88, Princeton University Press

• Knowing is different from doing and therefore theory must never be used as norms for a standard, but merely as aids to judgment.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Knowing, Different, Judgment

• [The cause of inaction in war] ... is the imperfection of human perception and judgment which is more pronounced in war than anywhere else. We hardly know accurately our own situation at any particular moment while the enemy's, which is concealed from us, must be deduced from very little evidence.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Imperfection, Perception

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