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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known; we always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal. Science is a tribute to what we can know although we are fallible.

Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.

She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day.

Shift from judgment to compassion to love.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand.

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.

Strengthen an adversary led by a dictator who dreams of reassembling the old Soviet empire? What an extraordinarily dangerous lack of judgment.

Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

The deepest fear we have, 'the fear beneath all fears,' is the fear of not measuring up, the fear of judgment. It's this fear that creates the stress and depression of everyday life.

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

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 forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

The Jesus of the Scripture transcends all nations and calls all nations into judgment.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.

The less judgment the more curiosity, and the more curiosity the more creativity.

The medical malpractice system is totally out of control. Everybody in the system knows it. And it's not just of the outrageous judgments, it's not just the fact that some people get millions of dollars, others get nothing, and the one people who get rich are lawyered, it's just that it causes doctors to practice defensive medicine.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a worldwide basis. It was originally envisaged as a rather rough-and-ready procedure by which we could grade earthquakes. We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.

The most generous and merciful in judgment upon the faults of others are always the most free from faults themselves.

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

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.