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Judgment is being able and willing to say some ideas or actions are better than others. Good judgment recognizes the risks and benefits of different options and chooses between them. It provides a basis for decision making, a call to action.


Judgment makes sense only in within a set of values or objectives. Because of this, judgment requires clarity about what we are trying to accomplish and why. Only in this context can we weigh possibilities and prioritize them. Judgment recognizes that, at times, to stand for something we have to stand against something. It allows us to say that some paths lead us to a better place and some cause harm.


People who cultivate openness and humility often are wary of judgment, because judgment wrongly applied can be sanctimonious or narrow. But when informed by openness and humility, judgment allows us to move forward.

Judgment

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Set before thine eyes God's unerring Balance and, as one standing in His Presence, weigh in that Balance thine actions every day, every moment of thy life.

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Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah
p. 236
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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

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He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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Sermon - October 15, 1826
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At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions--that is to say, rather than judgments--and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

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What's God Got to Do with It?
by ed. Tim Page
Page 109 ("On Learning and Genius")
Published by Steerforth Press , Hanover, NH , 2005
http://www.amazon.com/Whats-God-Got-Ingersoll-Separation/dp/1586420968/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1224970457&sr=8-1
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Don't believe everything you think.

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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

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Thomas J. Watson
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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

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Ideas often have results that are the opposite of those their authors anticipated as consequences are rarely those expected or hoped for by the original thinkers. . . . Yet the cure of bad or misapplied ideas is not the refutation of ideas and thinkers but better and corrected ideas.

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Richard Gieb
"Credo"
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To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

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Djuna Barnes
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Receptivity and sensitiveness are what makes one’s behaviour endearing and enriching. Do not try to thrust your likes and dislikes on others. Try instead, to find out what those around would expect from you and where you can possibly contribute. Rather than feeling conflict or confrontation every time, look for and generate greater notes of harmony.     

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Swami Boomananda Tirtha
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All things…call on us with small or loud voices. They want us to listen, they want us to understand their intrinsic claims, their justice of being…. But we can give it to them only through the love that listens.

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Paul Tillich
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Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.

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Adrian Cadbury
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We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.

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Ian Percy
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Take sides.  Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.  Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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Action for Animals pamphlet
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But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.

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Bible
Version or Translation KJV
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