Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
American society was economically ill-run in the 1980s. Our society has been on a consumption binge. If the American people had a town meeting and said, 'What do we care about posterity? Posterity hasn't done anything for us; we're going to whoop it up now,' that is a rational judgment. But nobody ever did that.
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret, Julian Assange's judgment has been pretty good so far.
Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I think I have good judgment.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.
Abortion on demand has, in my judgment, contributed significantly to an environment in our country in which life has become very cheap.
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.
First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.
Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.
Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.
They thought that I was a man with reasonable judgment, so I was never under pressure from my parents; I could do whatever I wanted. I never had a negative word from them, nothing whatsoever.
If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice; for all right of private judgment is then denied.
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
There shouldn't be any kind of judgment towards somebody who has a belief system that is not yours.
