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.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man,
Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;
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Cruel and cold is the judgment of man,
Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;
But by-and-by will the deed and the plan
Be judged by the motive that lieth below.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's
judgment.

Jack was embarrassed--never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.

Jack was embarrassed--never hero more,
And as he knew not what to say, he swore.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is
capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is
capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having read more

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.