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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point read more
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you read more
Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his
virtues.
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's error than from his
virtues.
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their read more
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part read more
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our read more
Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
