Judgement Quotes - Page 11

• The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Fighting, Men, Lust

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• Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

  David Hume

  Truth, Passion, Ideas

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2007). “A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition”, p.24, Oxford University Press

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• An ill agreement is better then a good judgement.
  [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]

  George Herbert

  Agreement, Judgment, Ill

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• At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

  Reginald Aldworth Daly

  Imagination, Tools, Research

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• It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Friendship, Character, Men

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• [Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Courage, Disappointment, Believe

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• If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.
  De Revolutionibus Coelestibus

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Skills, Ignorant, Purpose

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• Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Perspective, Intuition, Technique

  "The Fall and Rise of Strategic Planning" by Henry Mintzberg, hbr.org. 1994.

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• One of my central philosophies is to be creatively driven so I have to be extraordinarily creative in the way I get things done and I have to be really flexible. Striving for the best creativity can be a really moving target if you're trying to budget anything because if you come up with a better idea for something and it's going to make the movie stronger then you have to do it. And that's what I do. The difficulty is that you have to use more judgement as a producer then you might in other places. I have to make unbelievably great creative decisions.

  Brad Lewis

  Philosophy, Moving, Creativity

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• A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, "They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Egypt, Expression

  The Conservative Political Action Conference, February 11, 2011.

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• Get rid of the judgement ... get rid of the 'I am hurt,' you are rid of the hurt itself.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Hurt, I Am Hurt

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1944). “The meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus”

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• Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Fighting, Negative, Fundamentals

  Il Corriere della Sera, September 13, 2008.

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• Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Acceptance, Events, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.119, Modern Library

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• making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

  Margaret Atwood

  Editors, Cities, Finals

  Margaret Atwood (1984). “Second words: selected critical prose”, Beacon Press, 1984

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• For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Beauty, Body, Way

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Way, Judgment, Sincerity

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• We believe that the Greeks have been punished through [the Crusades] by the just judgement of God: these Greeks who have striven to rend the Seamless Robe of Jesus Christ ... Those who would not join Noah in his ark perished justly in the deluge; and these have justly suffered famine and hunger who would not receive as their shepherd the blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles.

  Pope Innocent III

  Jesus, Believe, Blessed

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• Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Humanity, Woe

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• When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Necks, Shut Up

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• Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Friendship, Hatred, Feelings

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.823, Stanford University Press

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• Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

  Stephen Frears

  Hero, Risk, Important

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• For what you call the Law is but a club of the rich over the lowest of men, sanctifying the conquest of the earth by a few and making their theft the way of things. But over and above these pitiful statutes of yours that enclose the common land and reduce us to poverty to make you fat stands the Law of Creation, which renders judgement on rich and poor alike, making them one. For freedom is the man who will thus turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he has enemies

  Gerrard Winstanley

  Freedom, Men, Law

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• In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.

  F. R. Leavis

  Appreciation, Art, Hands

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• The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Ideas, Mind, Three

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• Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Confused, Self

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