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"It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece."
"Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."
"No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so much ignored, after the initial judgements of contemporaries had been made."
"In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion."
"Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes."
"The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow."
"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties."
"An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]"
"Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment."
"Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live."
"Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance - now, at this very moment - of all external events. That's all you need."
"You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence."
"A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality."
"He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss"
"Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility."
"Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers"
"There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs."
"Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time."
"How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!"
"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement."
