Judgement Quotes - Page 16

• Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence, diversity, private judgement-disappear.

  James Surowiecki

  Intelligent, Diversity, Decision

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• 'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock, but my believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether or not he really did do it. So also with the story of Jesus walking on water: Believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether he really did do it. 'Belief' cannot be the basis for historical conclusions; it has no direct relevance.

  Marcus Borg

  Faith, Jesus, Believe

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• ...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

  Hilda Doolittle

  Ifs

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• When we are being compassionate, we consider another's circumstance with love rather than judgement... To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Moving, Heart, Supportive

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• Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ideas, Connections, Links

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• And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Lying, Judgment

  William Cowper (1805). “Poems”, p.93

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• Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

  Emma Thompson

  Dream, Space, Goal

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• I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

  Charlie Sheen

  Children, Wife, Stupidity

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• For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Clouds

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• When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Heart, Evil

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• A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

  Byron Katie

  Mind, World, Dangerous

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• As we do what He would have us do for His children, the Lord considers it kindness to Him, and we will feel closer to Him as we feel His love and His approval. In time, we will become like Him, and will think of the judgement day with happy anticipation.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, Kindness, Thinking

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• We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues human life and entrusts it to the judgement of individuals. A consequence deriving therefrom is lessened respect for the human person, a value that lies at the foundation of any form of civil coexistence, over and above the faith a person may profess.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Lying, May, Today

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• I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Heart, Eye, Ears

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• To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Errors, Giving

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• 'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

  Marquis de Sade

  Demand, Penalties, Infallibility

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• The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, War, Opiates

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.95, Fig

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• As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.

  Peter Wright

  Romantic, Kids, Math

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• Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Failure, Pride, Men

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.54

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• You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgement hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. When His hands are pierced, when He is parched with fever, His tongue dried up like a shard of pottery, when His whole body is dissolved into the dust of death, you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Sorry, Commitment

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• Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

  Ruth Messinger

  Listening, Matter, Judaism

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• A man must believe in himself and his judgement if he expects to make a living at this game. That is why I don't believe in tips."

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Believe, Men, Games

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• When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Writing, Views

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• Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Judging, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.9, Book Tree

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• No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the buzz bombs and the rockets that Werner von Braun designed for a German victory, a weapon absolutely decisive, in the judgement of many, in winning the war for the Allies.

  Peter Hilton

  War, Math, Winning

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