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.
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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.
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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.
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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
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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.
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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
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Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment.
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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
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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.
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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.
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Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
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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.
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Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
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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.
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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.
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The words you've bandied are sufficient; 'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
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To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'
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If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?
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Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.
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The new purchasers fully intend to pay the full debt ... and all the money owed on the property.
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Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.
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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.
