James Russell Lowell Quotes About Judgment

Quotes about: Judgment

• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Memories, Knowledge, Mean

• I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

  James Russell Lowell

  Failure, Long, Tails

  James Russell Lowell (1876). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.256

• God does not weigh criminality in our scales. We have one absolute, with the seal of authority upon it; and with us an ounce is an ounce, and a pound a pound. God's measure is the heart of the offender,--a balance which varies with every one of us, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Errors, Balance

• It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Clouds, Dust

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