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Judgment Quotes
Wisdom earned the hard way.
These judgment quotes trace the link between hard-earned experience and sound decision-making, including the well-known idea that wisdom often follows a few costly mistakes. For more on how experience shapes character, see our Experience quotes page.
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- Hate
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Hate numbs the judgment, paralyzes the vitals of democracy.
- Human
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
- Enthusiasm
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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
- Errors
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
- Done
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At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
- Orator
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An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
- History
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History passes the final judgment.
- Necessary
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If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
- Experience
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
- Others
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Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led him to admit.
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