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Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement. — Mark Twain

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

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

your judgement judges you and defines you — Jean-Paul Sartre

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls. — Sayings

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

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

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. — Theodore Parker

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it. — Sophocles

In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. — Aeschylus

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. — Emmeline Pankhurst

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. - Daniel Gilbert

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others. — Daniel Gilbert

A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement — Clement Attlee

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so. — Barbara Tuchman

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. — Sophocles

There's no such thing as superior investing without superior judgment. — Howard Marks

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes. — Omar N. Bradley

Short Bad Judgment Quotes

  • Statistics are no substitute for judgment. — Henry Clay
  • There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement. — Leonardo da Vinci
  • The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late. — Lee Iacocca
  • Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely. — Orson Scott Card
  • In an age of permissionless leverage, judgement determines success and failure. — Naval Ravikant
  • If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. — Albert Camus
  • Short judgments make long friends. — Proverbs
  • None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves. — Charles Spurgeon
  • Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment. — Al Pacino

Bad Judgment Image Quotes

Bad judgment quote One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.
One bad chapter does not mean your story is over.

Bad Judgement Quotes

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions. — Epictetus

Experience comes from bad judgment. — Mark Twain

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people. — Tucker Max

Bad judgment quote Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Persist to overcome. He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

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. — Tony Robbins

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it. — Twyla Tharp

All socialists have bad backs because we slouch - except when we're watching the news when we sit on the edge of our seats, shout, and wave our arms. Generally we sit hunched, arms crossed in a judgemental way, the whole of our bodies pulled into a frown. — Jeremy Hardy

Bad judgment quote If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it cam
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement. — Christian Slater

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way. — Janet Suzman

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others. — Perry Como

I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best. — Lionel Abel

Good Judgment Quotes

I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect. — Chris Brown

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service. — Sonny Perdue

Every baby moves with more ease and efficiency if allowed to do it at his own time and in his own way, without our trying to teach him. A child who has always been allowed to move freely develops not only an agile body but also good judgment about what he can and cannot do. — Magda Gerber

Bad judgment quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

A bad man in Zion City is a good man in Chicago. — American Proverbs

A man with good judgment does not make the goat his gardener. —

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. — Dorothy Parker

Bad judgment quote There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.

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

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. — Johnny Depp

The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is. — Tucker Carlson

Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad. — Ramakrishna

Good Judgement Quotes

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. — Oscar Wilde

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. — Roger Babson

Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness. — William Arthur Ward

Bad judgment quote Be curious, bot judgmental.
Be curious, bot judgmental.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor. — Grantland Rice

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway. — Barbara Bush

Bad judgment quote Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.
Don't let a bad day make you feel like you have a bad life.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. — Les Brown

Time is the only commodity that matters. — Randy Pausch

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character. — Orestes Brownson

An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.] — George Herbert

Sound Judgment Quotes

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. — Nancy Lopez

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. — Ellen DeGeneres

There is nothing that deceives us more than our own judgment when used to give an opinion on our own works. It is sound in judging the work of our enemies but not that of our friends, for hate and love are two of the most powerfully motivating factors found among living things. — Leonardo da Vinci

Bad judgment quote You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.
You have to fight through the bad days in order to earn the best days.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips. — Mark Twain

Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment. — Benjamin Graham

Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. — William Shakespeare

Bad judgment quote If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts. — William John Macquorn Rankine

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat. Oh! be swift my soul to answer him, be jubilant my feet! Our God is marching on. — Julia Ward Howe

You can develop good judgment as you do the muscles of the body — by judicious, daily exercise. — Grenville Kleiser

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. — Horace

Bad Choices Quotes

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you. — Dr. Seuss

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. — R. C. Sproul

I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices. — Common

Bad judgment quote You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention
You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

I felt bad, yet I knew I’d made the right choice. I was following my heart. — Rich Roll

Why bad things happen to good people — Harold S. Kushner

With enemies, it's easier to just have them be straight-up bad guys so they can just get beaten up. — Akira Toriyama

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. — Steve Ditko

If you have bad friends, they lead you to bad. If you have graduated friends, they lead you to good. — Thai Proverbs

Now, Bad Ass, you run your mouth about Summerslam. Well, here's the situation. The Rock says this, if the Rock hits you he'll kill you. If he misses, the wind behind the punch will give you pneumonia and you'll die anyway, so the choice is yours, jabroni. — Dwayne Johnson

A pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. — Jewish Proverbs

Bad Decision Quotes

Bad decisions, good intentions. — Drake

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. — Deepak Chopra

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. - George S. Patton

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. — George S. Patton

You want people with different life experiences as a backstop against bad decisions. — Tucker Carlson

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money. I grew up in the projects and you don't turn down money there. You take it, because you never know when it's all going to end. I made Cop III because they offered me $15 million. That $15 million was worth having Roger Ebert's thumb up my ass. — Eddie Murphy

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice — Lauren Conrad

Having a financial adviser enables the investor to carry a psychological call option. If the investment decision turns out well, the investor takes the credit, and if it turns out badly, the regret can be lowered by blaming the adviser. — Hersh Shefrin

Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. — Todd Phillips

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions. — Gary Johnson

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right? — Cecelia Ahern

Wrong Judgment Quotes

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow. — Philip Sidney

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong. — Steven Tyler

If there is one thing my Soviet childhood taught me, it's that subscribing to someone else's ideology will always inevitably mean having to suspend your own judgment about right and wrong to appease your tribe. I refuse to do so. — Konstantin Kisin

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. — Wayne Dyer

Collective judgment of new ideas is so often wrong that it is arguable that progress depends on individuals being free to back their own judgment despite collective disapproval. — W. Arthur Lewis

The problem I see with utilitarianism, or any form of consequentialism, is not that it gets the wrong answers to moral questions. I think just about any moral theory, worked out intelligently, and applied with good judgment, would get just about the same results as any other. — Allen W. Wood

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Sometimes people do go wrong. There is no judgment needed. Wrong will take a short time or a long time to make the individual aware that something is wrong, and that is the beginning of that person's awakening. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior. — Nikolas Schreck

Over many decades, our usual practice is that if something we like goes down, we buy more and more. Sometimes something happens, you realize you’re wrong, and you get out. But if you develop correct confidence in your judgment, buy more and take advantage of stock prices. — Charlie Munger

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More Bad Judgment Quotes

Not everybody is as bad as he is dressed. — Danish Proverbs

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." — Sydney J. Harris

An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it. — Leonardo da Vinci

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day. — Mary Anne Radmacher

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake. — Stephen Covey

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. — Rita Mae Brown

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.' — Saul Bellow

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

Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur. — Deepak Chopra

True knowledge of good and evil as we possess is merely abstract or general, and the judgment which we pass on the order of things and the connection of causes, with a view to determining what is good or bad for us in the present, is rather imaginary than real. — Baruch Spinoza

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad. — Doris Lessing

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment. — Mark Twain

Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment. — John Lyman Chatfield

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse. — Ricky Gervais

Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story. — Denise Linn

Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards. — Susan Sontag

In my judgment, we have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases. That would be the worst possible thing to do and will make a bad economy even worse. Beyond that, targeted tax relief should be expanded upon. — Meg Whitman

It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment, and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning. — Ben Moreell

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that. — Richelle Mead

Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account of some passage in Scripture, badly distorted to their purpose, will dare to censure and assail what I have presented here. — Nicolaus Copernicus

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. — Epictetus

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. — Walter Wriston

I don't often get into a bad mood, since it does not help anything and clouds my judgment, but I can certainly see that sometimes things go terribly wrong. We need to understand the reasons for this and work towards building new conditions that will bring about better circumstances. — Matthieu Ricard

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. — Mary McCarthy

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. — Fred Brooks

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery? — Joyce Meyer

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience. — Bob Packwood

Hillary Clinton`s plan would trigger a constitutional crisis unlike almost anything we have ever seen before. In effect, she would be abolishing the law-making powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. And you see what bad judgment she has. She has seriously bad judgment. — Donald Trump

Most people, no matter what they do, they don't think they're a bad person. The place where their actions are coming from is a complicated place and a whole personal history. I definitely think that it helped me to look at the world a little less judgmentally. — Ari Graynor

Hillary Clinton's bad instincts and her bad judgment, something pointed out by Bernie Sanders, are what caused so many of the disasters unfolding today. — Donald Trump

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it. — Steven James

Hillary Clinton is a disaster, folks. She has bad judgment. That was said by Bernie Sanders. He's given me a lot of my best lines. — Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton lies a lot. She has bad judgment. She created ISIS with her stupidity. — Donald Trump

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