Quotes on Good Judgment

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Practice self-discipline and keep emotions under control. Good judgment and common sense are essential.

Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.