Anton Chekhov Quotes

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

The wisest of the wise may err.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

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

Many people out there don't have a choice in choosing their friends and the people they're being manipulated by. Thank God, I have that choice. I can use my judgment and choose.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.

You never ask the public individual to decide. You can teach them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to decide.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

Grant, then, to Your servant an understanding mind to judge Your people, to distinguish between good and bad; for who can judge this vast people of yours?

A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others.

The foolish reject what they see and not what they think; the wise reject what they think and not what they see.

The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

One big power of an actor is knowing when to say no to something. It can be very tempting to say yes to something, because you're flattered that somebody would like to work with you, and your ego sort of takes over, but it's important to ask whether there could be something you could add to a project by being part of it.

I try to be very smart and use wisdom about everything.

Common sense, proportionality, and judgment are the skills we must seek in those we choose to regulate our lives.