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“A man possessed of splendid talents, which he often abused, and of a sound judgment, the admonitions of which he often neglected; a man who succeeded only in an inferior department of his art, but who in that department succeeded pre-eminently.”

Men Art Sound Talent Judgment Abuse Department Possessed Inferiors Splendid Neglected Admonition Sound Judgment

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Is it more important to make sure that you have another Clinton or a woman in the White House than it is to have somebody who is a morally sound character and judgment?”

Important Character House Sound White Judgment Clinton White House

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.”

Should Firsts Form Sound Voice Opinion Judgment Dare Awe Echoes Idle Rumours

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“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.”

Giving Two Used Hate Found Sound Opinion Enemy Judging Judgment And Love Factors Most Powerful Working It Deceiving Living Things Love And Hate

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“We believe, from everything we have been told by the intelligence community, by 12 years of history with Iraq, by the experience of the U.N. inspectors and by other intelligence agencies in other countries that Saddam Hussein had the intention to develop weapons of mass destruction and to have such weapons, and that was a sound judgment which I still believe to this day because he had had them in the past, he'd used them in the past.”

“In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.”

Knows World Way Mind Heart Whole Care Law Desire Choices Sound Christ Sin Walks Pleasure Judgment Prosperity Determined Reasonable Righteous Walking With God

Author:Joseph Alleine

“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.”

Men Mind Real Sound Existence Practice Influence Theory Judgment Delusion Rejected Fallacy Discrepancies Theory And Practice Discrepancies Between

Book:A Manual of Applied Mechanics

Source: A Manual of Applied Mechanics

“Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment.”

World Courses Sound Greater Judgment Direct Guides Bells

Book:Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel

“For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?”

Source: Sermons Preached at Brighton

“No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subject on which he is to legislate.”

Men Doe Certain Sound Subjects Degrees Judgment Add Intention Legislation Competent Legislators Sound Judgment

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.”

Use Humanity Sound Common Cry Demand Judgment Contrary Common Sense Torture Sound Judgment

Author:Catherine the Great

“Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.”

Understanding Sound Common Virtue Judgment Common Sense Participation Prominent Uniting

Author:James Vila Blake

“I'm going to show you a technology today which takes insults and criticisms out of the airwaves. (Marshall puts on giraffe ears) With this technology, it will be impossible for you to hear criticisms, harsh remarks, or insults. All you can hear is what all people are ever saying, "please" and "thank you". What used to sound like criticism, judgment, or blame, you will see, are really tragic, suicidal expressions of "please".”

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

Important Sound Information Judgment Ingredients Arriving Sound Judgment

Book:The Renaissance of value: the proceedings of a seminar on the economy, interest rates, portfolio management, and bonds vs common stocks, September 18, 1974

Source: The Renaissance of value: the proceedings of a seminar on the economy, interest rates, portfolio management, and bonds vs common stocks, September 18, 1974

“My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.”

Giving Problem Sound Church Answers Christianity Judgment Sound Judgment

Author:Eric Ludy

“You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.”

Believe Sound Judgment Salvation Attributes Thank God Repent Prudence Good Sense Sound Judgment

Author:J. I. Packer

“Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.”

Men Reason Found Understanding Sound Duty Judgment Perfection Guides Discretion

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Nothing tells in the long run like a good judgment, and no sound judgment can remain with the man whose mind is disturbed by the mercurial changes of the stock exchange. It places him under an influence akin to intoxication. What is not, he sees, and what he sees, is not.”

Men Mind Long Running Sound Influence He Man Judgment Long Runs Disturbed Intoxication Good Judgment Stock Exchange Sound Judgment

Book:Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams

Source: Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams

“A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.”

Kind Character Feelings Sound Common Elements Judgment Perception Common Sense Success In Life Politeness Tact Sound Judgment

Author:Charles Simmons

“Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.”

Writing Wells Sound Judgment Authorship Writing Well Sound Judgment

Book:The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon

Source: The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon

“If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.”

Ifs Knows Men Choices Given Sound Liberty Wise Honest Security Judgment Latter Contempt Scorn Free Man Honest Man Sound Judgment

Author:James Farley