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Joseph Chilton Pearce, aka Joe
Any judgment we make, no matter of whom, registers in the heart as a disruption of relationship, and the heart dutifully responds on behalf of our defense, shifting neural, hormonal, and electromagnetic systems from relational to defensive. Creator and created are giving rise to each other, we are judged as we have judged.
Defense | Giving | Heart | Judgment | Relationship |
Maimonides, given name Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon, known as "Rambam" NULL
Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgment that all exists is an evil.
Evil | Individual | Judgment | Nothing | Wishes |
Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock
How good it would be if we could learn to be rigorous in judgment of ourselves, and gentle in our judgment of our neighbors! In remedying defects, kindness works best with others, sternness with ourselves. It is easy to make allowances for our faults, but dangerous; hard to make allowances for others’ faults, but wise.
Noam Chomsky, fully Avram Noam Chomsky
We really don't know what the fundamental principles of moral judgment actually are, but we have very good reason to believe that they're there.
Good | Judgment | Principles | Reason |
Consider! Behind you lie the confusions and inadequacies of that remarkably over-rated period of human existence known as youth. Youth has vitality, its true; youth has a superabundance of “free energy.” But it has little else. It lacks poise. It lacks experience. Above all, it has neither judgment nor wisdom, the two qualities which make life supremely worth while... the rewards of self-knowledge are enormous... self-knowledge is the key to self-mastery... Calm, assured, integrated people have a way of making considerable impact on reality. By changing themselves, they change the world around them.
Change | Energy | Existence | Experience | Judgment | Knowledge | Life | Life | Little | People | Qualities | Reality | Self | Self-knowledge | Self-mastery | Wisdom | World | Worth | Youth | Youth |
The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love, neither himself nor his own thins, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.
Cause | Good | Honor | Judgment | Love | Man | Object | Preference | Self | Self-love | Thinking | Truth | Wrong |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
Medicine, to produce health, has to examine disease, and music, to create harmony, must investigate discord; and the supreme arts of temperance, of justice, and of wisdom, as they are acts of judgment and selection, exercised not on good and just and expedient only, but also on wicked, unjust, and inexpedient objects, do not give their commendations to the mere innocence whose boast is its inexperience of evil, and whose utter name is, by their award, simpleness and ignorance of what all men who live aright should know.
Disease | Evil | Good | Harmony | Health | Ignorance | Innocence | Judgment | Justice | Men | Music | Wisdom |
The forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world.
Forgiveness | Judgment | World | Forgiveness |
No man has learned anything until he knows that every day is the Judgment Day.
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Experience | Good | Judgment |
For no reason whatever should one judge the actions of creatures or their ;motives. Even when we see that it is an actual sin, we ought not to pass judgment on it, but have holy and sincere compassion and offer it up to God with humble and devout prayer.
Compassion | God | Judgment | Motives | Prayer | Reason | Sin | God |
Men of mean judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their grasp, till they have lost it.
Ted Sorensen, fully Theodore Chalkin "Ted" Sorensen
A President does not have to be a great creative or innovative thinker, as helpful as that may be. For an almost endless flow of new ideas will almost certainly come to him and his real task is to discriminate and choose among them. Similarly, he does not personally have to be a great administrator, but he has to choose and guide those who are. He has to be as discriminating in his judgment of men as of ideas.
Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.
All calm inquiry conducted among those who have their main principles of judgment in common, leads, if not to an approximation of views, yet, at least, to an increase of sympathy.
Inquiry | Judgment | Principles | Sympathy |
At the day of judgment it shall not be asked of us what we have read, but what we have done; not how well we have said, but how religiously we have lived.