Judgments Quotes

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Right-wing media and politicians are looking for any opportunity to be critical of the reporters who are here. Some reporters make judgments, but that is not my style. I present both sides and report what I see with my own eyes.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.