Judgment Quotes - Page 33

• The reason why life may be judged to be trivial although at certain moments it seems to us so beautiful is that we form our judgment, ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself but of those quite different images which preserve nothing of life-and therefore we judge it disparagingly.

  Marcel Proust

  Beautiful, Judging, Different

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.260, Modern Library

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• So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Giving Up, Men, Self

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• How often God visited the Jewish Church with judgments because they would not repent and be revived at the call of His prophets! How often have we seen Churches, and even whole denominations, cursed with a curse, because they would not wake up and seek the Lord.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, Wake Up, Lord

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.24

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• When preachers teach biblically and clearly about the judgment of God and the dangers of hell, men begin to see that their greatest need is to be saved from eternal condemnation, and the more "practical" needs of this present age become trivial in comparison.

  Paul Washer

  Men, Age, Needs

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• Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

  Seneca the Younger

  Rivers, Fire, Darkness

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• Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

  Brené Brown

  Advice, Sitting, Daring Greatly

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• Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

  Billy Graham

  Littles, Passages, Persons

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.81, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• To the ordinary guy, all this is a bunch of gobbledygook. But out of the gobbledygook comes a very clear thing: you can't trust the government, you can't believe what they say, and you can't rely on their judgment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Believe, Government, Guy

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• If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Circumstances, Can Do, Relative

  Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”

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• It is a favorite thing with infidels to set their own standard, to measure themsleves by other people. But that will not do in the Day of Judgment. Now we will use God's law as a balance weight.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Law, People, Balance

  Dwight L Moody (1977). “D. L. Moody on the Ten Commandments”, p.8, Moody Publishers

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• If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Ideas, Judging

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• [W]e shall have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted conscientiously, and have used our best judgment. And if we have to throw away our votes, we had better do so upon a worthy rather than an unworthy individual who might make use of the weapon we put in his hand to destroy us.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Hands, Knowing, Use

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• If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment.

  Immanuel Kant

  Exercise, May, Human Nature

  Immanuel Kant, Annette Churton (2003). “On Education”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

  Gore Vidal

  America, What Matters, Long

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Opportunity, Men, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Citizens, Individual

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.187, Regnery Publishing

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• All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Men, Envy

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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• To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Mistake, Opportunity, Two

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• Ang Lee just allowed me to make what we would call mistakes and had no judgment of them. He also empowered me. You know, he's like, "You're my actor. I chose you. Whatever you do is right." Right? "I made the decision, I'm complicit in choosing you. And I went through everything I could to choose you, so I feel good and whatever you're going to do I'm going to give you this space." And so it was very empowering.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Mistake, Space, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own judgment of whether or not they want to trust you based on how transparent you are with them and the principles that you bring to the game.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Believe, Games, Always Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves, we need laws. Fraud is against the law, murder is against the law, drunk-driving is against the law. We don't need just nudges.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, Law, Drunk

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first.

  Seth Klarman

  Views, Perspective, Long

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• It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment, refinement, patience, and reflection. It requires endless curiosity, the relentless pursuit of additional information, the raising of questions, and the search for answers. It necessitates dealing with imperfect information - knowing you will never know everything and that that must not prevent you from acting. It requires a precarious balance between conviction, steadfastness in the face of adversity, and doubt - keeping in mind the possibility that you could be wrong.

  Seth Klarman

  Adversity, Reflection, Knowing

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• Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Short Life, Opportunity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1824). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.75

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• For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

  Steven J Lawson

  Wrath, Perfect, Justice

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