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• There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Commitment, Math, Exercise

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• So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Country, Men, People

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• ou can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies and remote figures respecting the earth, sun, and all sorts of things — for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery.

  Michael Faraday

  Struggle, Science, Thinking

  "The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters".

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• Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Writing, Science, Men

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• Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification.

  Donald Cram

  Reading, Book, Science

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• In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explication of the terms commonly ends the controversy, and the disputants are surprised to find that they had been quarrelling, while at bottom they agreed in their judgement.

  David Hume

  Lying, Science, Reality

  'Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary' (ed. T. H. Green and T. H. Grose, 1875) 'Of the Standard of Taste' (1757)

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• Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.208, Palgrave Macmillan

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• It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Excellent, Weak

  "The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne".

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• Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

  Albert Camus

  Essentials, Share, Consent

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• If you would judge, understand.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Judging, Understanding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

  Euripides

  Success, Achievement, Gains

  Euripides (2012). “Ten Plays by Euripides”, p.92, Bantam Classics

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• Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feelings, Bitter, Huskies

  Charlotte Bronte (2017). “Jane Eyre”, p.188, Pan Macmillan

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• The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Self, Support

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

  William Boyd

  Doctrine, Tranquility, Certainty

  William Boyd, John Costello (1991). “Ten days to destiny: the secret story of the Hess peace initiative and British efforts to strike a deal with Hitler”, William Morrow & Co

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• It's true that the judgement of what firearms should be prohibited will be decided by the government of the day - and shouldn't it be that way?

  Allan Rock

  Government, Way, Should

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• Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Spiritual, Judging, Energy

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• Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Morning, Philosophy, Educational

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• [The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my part, the judgement of posterity, I would dare predict that this method will be accused one day, and rightly, of having retarded the progress of the mathematical sciences.

  Francois-Joseph Servois

  Science, Hands, Progress

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• The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.

  Gottlob Frege

  Science, Judging, Aim

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• The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

  William O. Douglas

  Maturity, People, Common Sense

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• All roads lead to the judgment seat of Christ.

  Keith Green

  Christian Inspirational, Missionary, Judgment

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• The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

  John Owen

  Heart, Men, World

  John Owen (1991). “The Works of John Owen”

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• Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?

  Laurent Fignon

  Judging, Understood

  Laurent Fignon (2010). “We Were Young and Carefree: The Autobiography of Laurent Fignon”, p.58, Random House

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• As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.

  Thomas Huxley

  Cat, Jumping, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Enlightenment, Three, Enlightened

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.140, Penguin

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