#judgment

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another. ↗

— Richard Whately

#avoid #corrupted #danger #exchange #follow

Conscience without judgment is superstition. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#judgment #superstition #without

I try not to pass judgment on anyone, and I wish they wouldn't pass it on me. ↗

— Mary Beth Whitehead

#i #i wish #judgment #me #pass

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#counsels #hasty #heat #judgment #light

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. ↗

— Robert Southey

#hasty #how #judgments #little #see

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hopes #judgment #learn #manipulation #merely

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#first step #hasty #judgment #step

The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide. ↗

— Robert E. Neale

#society #suicide #art

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#morality #change

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. ↗

— John Ruskin

#effort #expression #imperfection #judgment #mercy