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Judgment Quotes


"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."


"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie."


"In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail."


"Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit."


"Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment."


"Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system."


"I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination."


"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment."


"Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is."


"Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."


"If somebody doesn't have enough judgment to be able to look at plastic surgery and realize how phony it is, then they can't be helped."


"Judge not, lest you be so fearful of judgment that you can hardly breath."


"Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom."


"Be less of a judge and you will be surprised that when you become a witness, you have become a mystic."


"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."


"It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing."


"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."


"If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea."


"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."


"The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment."


"Not every dog that barks, bites."


"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."


"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards."


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


"Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment."


"I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth."


"Now, if they're there to talk about something specifically, and I determine through my own editorial judgment, that another area isn't germane, or isn't an important part of it, that's something else. But we never agree to anything in advance, absolutely not."


"For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
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