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"The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it."
"The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment."
"General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise."
"I suspect people who are indecisive are people who are far too enamored of analysis in all settings and are destroying their ability to make an instinctive judgment through over-analysis and that's dangerous."
"Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good."
"Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously."
"No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting."
"Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law."
"Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine."
"Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check."
"I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends."
"The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment."
"We should use our judgment before coming to a decision."
"To love without criticism is to be betrayed."
"To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."
"The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence."
"It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much."
"Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments."
"In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless."
"Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment."
