When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.
I have had many occasions this year where I questioned and second-guessed my decision in a game, but it comes down to learning from mistakes and being accountable for what you did right or did wrong.
Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
I can't assume that my kid is going to make the best decision all the time.
The major weakness of all educational systems is that they neither teach nor encourage the habit of definite decision.
It's often said that the most important qualities in a chief executive are character and judgment.
Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.
It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.
I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
How sad it is that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them and do not choose to judge for themselves! But it is always so.
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.
Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.
Children have a very good idea of how to distinguish between fantasies and realities. It's just they are equally interested in exploring both.
It is hardly surprising that children should enthusiastically start their education at an early age with the Absolute Knowledge of computer science; while they are unable to read, for reading demands making judgments at every line. Conversation is almost dead, and soon so too will be those who knew how to speak.
With Eli - and all of my sons - I wanted to impress that as they grow older, they are going to have important decisions to make and at decision time, you can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right.
Hire people more for their judgment than for their talents.
Teenagers have a natural curiosity and are keen to clock up experiences. What they need to be wary of is that some experiences may erode their sense of self and lead to a fragmentation of morals.
The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.
I'm able to separate fiction and reality. I guess it remains to be seen if other people are.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.
