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Best Judgement Quotes

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path. – Paulo Coelho

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed: and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I fail and keep trying. – Tom Hopkins

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement. – Seneca

Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. – Leonardo da Vinci

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. – Jean Baudrillard

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. – Jim Rohn

Wise Carl Jung Quotes

Posted on November 6, 2011 by

Carl Gustav Jung was a psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Today I want to share with you his wise toughts. Enjoy this list of wise Carl Jung Quotes and, if you like them, choose your favorite. Thanks!

A “scream” is always just that – a noise and not music.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Posted on February 12, 2011February 13, 2011 by

– “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”

– “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.”

– “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

– “It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.”

– “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

– “My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.”

– “No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”

– “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”

– “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

– “To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.”