Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be
right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be
right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly
deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious read more

Wise men say that there are three sorts of persons who are wholly
deprived of judgment,--they who are ambitious of preferments in
the courts of princes; they who make use of poison to show their
skill in curing it; and they who intrust women with their
secrets.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
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There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
Ere Mercy weeps them out again.

We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of
judgment.
[Fr., On est quelquefois un sot read more

We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of
judgment.
[Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne
l'est jamais avec du jugement.]

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the
process by which results are arrived at.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the
process by which results are arrived at.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
And from your judgment must expect my fate.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.