Great Throughts Treasury

"On Judgment Day, God will not ask to what sect you belonged, but what manner of life you led." -

"The peace of God is peace within ourselves. The unrest of human life comes largely from our being torn asunder by contending impulses. Conscience pulls this way, passion that. Desire says, “Do this”; reason, judgment, prudence say “It is your peril if you do!” One desire fights against another. And so the man is rent asunder. There must be the harmonizing of all the being if there is to be real rest of spirit." - Alexander Maclaren

"When one has too many answers, and when on ejoins a chorus of others chanting the same slogans, there is, it seems to me, a danger that one is trying to evade the loneliness of a conscience that realizes itself to be in an inescapably evil situation. We are under judgment." - Thomas Merton

"By three things is the world preserved: by truth, by judgment, and by peace… The three are really one; if judgment is executed, truth is vindicated and peace results." - Mishnah or The Mishnah NULL

"Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment." -

"Whereas the old morality saw things as so simple that moral judgment was always easy, the new morality sees things so complicated that moral judgment becomes practically impossible." - John Courtney Murray

"When it is said that God loves man this is not a judgment on what man is like, but on what God is like." - Anders Nygren, fully Anders Theodor Samuel Nygren

"Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem invincible." -

"Even honorable motives of action, unless directed by judgment, are followed by disastrous results." - Otho, fully Marcus Salvius Otho Caesar Augustus NULL

"Fear and Gain are great Perverters of Mankind, and where either prevails the Judgment is violated." - William Penn

"He that has more knowledge than judgment is made for another man’s use more than his own." - William Penn

"All judgment is self-judgment." - Paul Richard

"Judgment is the ability to think of many matters at once, in their interdependence, their related importance, and their consequences." -

"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." - Charles William Stubbs

"If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"" - Robert V. Taylor, aka The Very Reverend Robert V. Taylor

"Committee: A structured decision-making body in which the level of collective judgment is lower than that of any individual member." -

"Maintaining an attitude of playfulness may at first seem inappropriate for problem-solving, but intuitive problem-solving is basically a creative process, and is more easily activated when critical judgment is suspended." -

"Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility." - Bahai’ Prayer NULL

"The significance of man is that he is that part of the universe that asks the question, 'What is the significance of man?' He alone can stand apart imaginatively and, regarding himself and the universe in their eternal aspects, pronounce a judgment: The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it." -

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment." - Fred Brooks, fully Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr.

"If there should be any [persons], who though ignorant in Mathematics, yet pretending a skill in those Learnings, should dare, upon the authority of some place of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my Hypothesis, I value them not, but shall slight their inconsiderate judgment." - Nicholas Copernicus

"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only half of the truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy." -

"Freethinkers are those who reach judgment based on critical thinking and independent reasoning without regard to prevailing authority and tradition." - Gerald Alexander Larue

"The value and force of a man's judgment can be measured by his ability to think independently of his temperamental leanings." - Alice Beal Parsons

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather, the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon, pen name for James Neil Hollingsworth

"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character." - Dale E. Turner

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience--well that comes from poor judgment." - Aesop NULL

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience--well that comes from poor judgment." -

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience--well that comes from poor judgment." -

"Don't wait for the last judgment-it takes place every day...An achievement is bondage. It obliges one to higher achievement." - Albert Camus

"There's no need to hang about waiting for the Last Judgment - it takes place every day." - Albert Camus

"Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus

"I shall tell you a great secret my friend, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day." - Albert Camus

"I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last judgment. It happens every day." - Albert Camus

"Don't wait for the last judgment-it takes place every day...An achievement is bondage. It obliges one to higher achievement." -

"There's no need to hang about waiting for the Last Judgment - it takes place every day." -

"Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day." -

"I shall tell you a great secret my friend, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day." -

"I'll tell you a big secret, my friend: Don't wait for the Last judgment. It happens every day." -

"The states of virtue by which the soul possesses truth by way of affirmation or denial are five in number, i.e., art, scientific knowledge, practical wisdom, philosophical wisdom, intuitive wisdom: we do not included judgment and opinion because in these we may be mistaken." - Aristotle NULL

"Those who desire honor from good men, and men who know, are aiming at confirming their own opinion of themselves; they delight in honor, therefore, because they believe in their own goodness on the strength of the judgment of those who speak about them." - Aristotle NULL

"Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Each evening we should meditate upon the fact that one more day is gone from the list that make up the sum of our years...By so much the time is shortened that separates us from the grave, the judgment and the eternal destiny." - Author Unknown NULL

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."" - Author Unknown NULL

"What is a demanding pleasure? A pleasure that demands the use of one's mind; not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness." - Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

"Know yourself - in talents and capacity, in judgment and inclination." - Baltasar Gracián

"At twenty the will rules; at thirty the intellect; at forty the judgment." - Baltasar Gracián

"Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste." - Baltasar Gracián

"Conscience without judgment is superstition." - Benjamin Whichcote

"For it is not to be doubted that the duration of this life is but a moment; that the state of death is eternal, whatever may be its nature; and that thus all our actions and thoughts must take such different directions, according to the state of that eternity, that it is impossible to take one step with sense and judgment, unless we regulate our course by the truth of that pint which ought to be our ultimate end." - Blaise Pascal