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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature.
Judgment |
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
Exaggeration | Judgment | Knowledge | Prodigality | Taste |
Know yourself - in talents and capacity, in judgment and inclination.
Capacity | Inclination | Judgment |
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
Conscience | Judgment | Superstition |
Reply with wit to gravity, and with gravity to wit. Make a full concession to your adversary; give him every credit for the arguments you know you can answer, and slur over those you feel you cannot. But above all, if he has the privilege of making his reply, take special care that the strongest thing you have to urge be the last.
Conversation is the music of the mind, an intellectual orchestra, where all the instruments should bear a part, but where none should play together. Each of the performers should have a just appreciation of his own powers, otherwise an unskillful novice who might usurp the first fiddle, would infallibly get into a scrape. To prevent these mistakes, a good master of the band will be very particular in the assortment of the performers; if too dissimilar, there will be no harmony, if too few, there will be no variety; and, if too numerous, there will be no order, for the presumption of one prater, might silence the eloquence of a Burke, or the wit of a Sheridan, as a single kettle-drum would drown the finest solo of a Gionowich or a Jordini.
Appreciation | Conversation | Good | Harmony | Mind | Music | Order | Play | Presumption | Silence | Will | Wit | Appreciation |
When someone praises you, be judge alone: trust not men's judgment of you, but your own.
Good taste is the product of judgment rather than of intellect.
He drew a circle that shut me out- heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: we drew a circle that took him in.
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Conscience | Individual | Judgment | Nothing | Responsibility |
Good judgment in our dealings with others consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions but in being able to waken the decency dormant in every person.
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament is in discourse; and ability is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and, perhaps, judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Age generally makes men more tolerant; youth is always discontented. The tolerance of age is the result of the ripeness of a judgment which, not merely as the result of indifference, is satisfied even with what is inferior, but, more deeply taught by the grave experience of life, has been led to perceive the substantial, sold worth of the object in question. The insight then to which - in contradistinction fro those ideals - philosophy is to lead us, is, that the real world is as it ought to be, that the truly good, the universal divine reason, is not a mere abstraction, but a vital principle capable of realizing itself.
Age | Experience | Good | Grave | Ideals | Indifference | Insight | Judgment | Life | Life | Men | Object | Philosophy | Question | Reason | World | Worth | Youth | Youth |
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence.
Admiration | Confidence | Wit |