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

  James Russell Lowell

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Judgment, Meaning

• You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it’s a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense — the result of judgment and experience — which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I’d better follow up.

  Linus Pauling

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovery, Curiosity, Ideas, Judgment, Creativity

• A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and – at some point – finality of judgment.

  Warren E. Burger

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Abolished, Poverty, Prompt, Swift, Judgment, Consequences

• A man’s conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Erroneous, Judgment, Conscience

• Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.

  Thomas Fuller

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Want, Complain, Judgment, Order

• From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Brain, Judgment, Little

• Indeed — judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgments, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.

  Emma Thompson

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Learning, Judgment, Listening

• There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging 10 times in his life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Action, Judgment, Law

• Venture not to defend what your judgment doubts of.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Doubts, Defend, Judgment

• I am a judge of cresses,” said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock.

  Topics in Danish Proverbs

  Tags in Judging, Peasant, Peas, Judgment

• The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Topics in Anger, Kindness

  Tags in Intuition, Judgment

• Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

  Tacitus

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Qualities, Leader, Reason, Judgment

• War is so complex it’s beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. Our judgment, our understanding, are not adequate. And we kill people unnecessarily.

  Robert McNamara

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Understanding, Judgment

• The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

  John Stuart Mill

  Topics in Dissent, Mistake, Truth

  Tags in Diversity, Perception, Opinion, Judgment

• The highest form of intelligence is the ability to observe without evaluating.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Observation, Reason, Judgment

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

  Harold Nicolson

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Judgment

• The Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti once remarked that observing without evaluating is the highest form of human intelligence. When I first read this statement, the thought, “What nonsense!” shot through my mind before I realized that I had just made an evaluation.

  Marshall Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Observation, Judgment

• Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Judgment

• You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Hatred, Judgment

• I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

  Dalai Lama

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope, Judgment