Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
Eddie Redmayne
It doesn't mean that they can't get the judgment against you, but as a practical matter, the creditor is not going to be able to collect on it.
Garry Moore
Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
Oscar Wilde
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
Mark Steyn
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.
Aristotle
Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
Francis Bacon
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Francis Bacon
Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Epictetus
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
William Hazlitt
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
William Penn
The man and the movement seemed 'reactionary' in my eyes. My common sense of justice, however, forced me to change this judgment in proportion as I had occasion to become acquainted with the man and his work; and slowly my fair judgment turned to unconcealed admiration. Today, more than ever, I regard this man as the greatest German mayor of all times.
Adolf Hitler
When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.
Blaise Pascal
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
