Great Throughts Treasury

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Sherwood Anderson

The whole object of education is, or should be, to develop mind. The mind should be a thing that works. It should be able to pass judgment on events as they arise, make decisions.

Education | Events | Judgment | Mind | Object | Wisdom |

William Jewett Tucker

Be not content with the commonplace in character anymore than with the commonplace in ambition or intellectual attainment. Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart.

Ambition | Attainment | Character | Conscience | Heart | Impression | Power | Will | World | Ambition |

Daniel Webster

A conscience void of offense, before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity.

Character | Conscience | Eternity | God | Inheritance | Man | Offense | God |

Thomas Arnold, aka Thomas "Tom" Arnold the Younger

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 | Wisdom |

Richard Baxter

Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

Conscience | Death | God | Nothing | Quiet | Time | Wisdom |

Jean de La Bruyère

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

Enough | Judgment | Misfortune | Wisdom | Wit | Misfortune |

John Christian Bovee

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Appreciation | Erudition | Judgment | Sense | Taste | Wisdom | Appreciation |

John Christian Bovee

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. The Chinese say, "The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall."

Character | Error | Glory | Judgment | Mistake | Time | Wisdom |

Christian Nestell Bovee

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Appreciation | Erudition | Judgment | Sense | Taste | Wisdom | Appreciation |

John Calvin

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Conscience | Hell | Soul | Torture | Wisdom |

Richard Cecil

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

Affliction | Gold | Judgment | Man | Will | Wisdom |

William Ellery Channing

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Conscience | Important | Object | Wisdom |

William Ellery Channing

The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. It is not the judgment of courts, but the moral judgment of individuals and masses of men, which is the chief wall of defense around property and life. With the progress of society, this power of opinion is taking the place of arms.

Defense | Judgment | Life | Life | Men | Opinion | Power | Progress | Property | Society | Wisdom | World |

Midge Decter, fully Midge Rosenthal Decter

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the... ecological chain of birthing, growing and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Children | Culture | Judgment | Society | Terror | Wisdom | Words | Youth | Society | Youth |

Albert Einstein

The school should always have as its aim that the young man leave it as a harmonious personality, not as a specialist. This in my opinion is true in a certain sense even in technical schools.... The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Ability | Judgment | Knowledge | Man | Opinion | Personality | Sense | Thinking | Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Art | Judgment | Life | Life | Opportunity | Wisdom |