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• Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

  Anne Stevenson

  Eye, Intuition, Instinct

  ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”

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• There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Arbitrary, Guarantees

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.112, Penguin

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• Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

  Margaret Benson

  Intellectual, Reason, Faculty

  Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faih”

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• He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.

  John Stuart Mill

  Self, Decision, Apes

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.34

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• The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

  Lillian Hellman

  Music, Inspiration, Ifs

  Lillian Hellman (1974). “Another Part of the Forest: Play in Three Acts”, p.31, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

  Matthew Arnold

  Winning, Men, Light

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• Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

  Lord Acton

  Errors, Standards

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.193, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only difference between the narrator of contemporary affairs and the ordinary historian is that moral judgments about the present provoke fiercer reactions and have more immediately practical implications than moral judgments about the past.

  Geoffrey Barraclough

  Past, Differences, Narrators

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• The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

  Catherine the Great

  Common Sense, Humanity, Sound

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• Photographers should follow their own judgment, and not the fads and dictates of others.

  Bill Brandt

  Fads, Photographer, Should

  Bill Brandt (1993). “Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.

  Arthur Blank

  Organization, Needs, Betrayed

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• The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Space, Mind

  Mark Nepo (2013). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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• That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

  King James I

  Men, Honest, Tricks

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• You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Questioning, Motive

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• I believe that we respond most and best to work in any art form (and to other experience as well) if we are pluralistic, flexible, relative in our judgments, if we are electic.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Believe, Form

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Wisdom, Appreciation, Common Sense

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• What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Feelings, Prejudice, Able

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• [On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Littles, Wit

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• Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

  Aphra Behn

  Men, Action, Share

  Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.274, Delphi Classics

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• But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he is only ranked with the hangman, whom we tolerate because he executes the judgment we abhor to do ourselves, and avoid with a natural detestation of his office. The pen of the one and the cord of the other are inseparable in our minds.

  Jane Porter

  Office, Mind, May

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• Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

  Barbara Sher

  Fool, Judgmental, Can Do

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.67, Dell

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• The sacred lives beyond labels and judgment, in the wood-of-no-names.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Names, Labels, Woods

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.69, Penguin

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• If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Self, Moral

  Charlotte Bunch, Nancy Myron (1974). “Class and feminism: a collection of essays from the Furies”

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• The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.

  James Connolly

  Apology, Literature, Mouths

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.22, Lulu.com

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