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*But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,
yet he himself is judged of no man.
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-I Corinthians 2:15
KJV
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*Men forget that a value
judgement has a raison d'etre only as a preparation for an action and a
meaning solely in relation to a system of consciously accepted moral
references.
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-Marc Bloch
Historical Analysis, 1942
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*Not to draw a
conclusion, in some cases, is as much a breach of correct reasoning as it
would be to draw a mistaken conclusion.
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-Irving Copi and Carl Cohen
Introduction to Logic, Tenth Edition,
1998
Chapter 6 : Fallacies, 6.2, "Fallacies of Relevance", R1, "The Argument from
Ignorance: Argument Ad Ignorantiam"
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~We judge ourselves by what
we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already
done.
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-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Kavanagh, 1849
Bk. 1, ch. 1
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Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say
'yes' to the best.
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-John C. Maxwell
(cf. JUDGEMENT : Voltaire)
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Always question. Always analyze. But in the
end, suspend judgement until you've been there. Live it to learn it.
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-Mark McClinchie
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*To interpose the threat of
physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate
and paralyze his means of survival; to force him to act against his own
judgement, is like forcing him to act against his own sight.
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-John Galt, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Part Three : A is A, Chapter VII, "'This is John Galt Speaking'"
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*Knowing a great deal is not
the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also
judgement, the manner in which information is collected and used.
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-Carl Sagan
Cosmos, 1980
Chapter X, "The Persistence of Memory"
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The best is the enemy
of the good.
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-Voltaire
(cf. JUDGEMENT : Maxwell)
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