Careful Judgment Quotes

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

Before you say cut, wait 5 seconds

Judgment is a delicate thing and does not come overnight.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.