Marianne Moore Quotes

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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.

Again, if you only know what you know, you don't know if something's good or bad. You don't have perspective.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

If you would judge, understand.

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

I believe in criticism.

I know all the critics.

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

It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers.

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.

I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.

They only babble who practise not reflection.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

If you judge, investigate.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I think naturally you want to judge things.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

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

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

That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

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.