#judgments

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool. ↗

— Max Cannon

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Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

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I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows. ↗

— Paul Valery

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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. ↗

— Edwin Meese

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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