Best 858 quotes in «judgment quotes» category

I'm going to keep talking about what I would do as president, the experience that I bring, the temperament and judgment that led President [Barack] Obama to ask me to be secretary of state after we ran a really hard primary against each other. It's funny to me, because when I have a position, whether it's first lady, or senator, or secretary of state, and I'm doing the work, I'm really quite popular.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

Immoral" is the judgment of the stalled ox on the gamboling lamb.

I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.

I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.

I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment. For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society.

Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

I'm starting to mistrust my judgment.

In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.

Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.

I never make moral judgments; I'm not qualified to do so. I am not a censor, a priest, or a politician.

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

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.

In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment.

In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment.

I possessed what is called the best of hearts -- a dangerous possession, as it is generally accompanied by the strongest passions, and the weakest judgment.

In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits. [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.

In the dream, sheltered from the noise, the subject expressed a judgment much more on the mark than that manifested in wakefulness.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.

I tell ye wut, my judgment is you're pooty sure to fail, Ez long 'z the head keeps turnin' back for counsel to the the tail.

I sit and pass judgment on myself: this is dull, this is unclear, this is insignificant: ergo I am dull, I am unclear, I am insignificant.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at Him and say ‘we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage’...

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not measured by Scripture, then we'll be found lacking, since Scripture communicates divine revelation to us.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.

It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.

It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it.

It is not through judgment that the good in people can be reached, but through love and faith.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.