“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”— Abigail Adams
“It is a great error to speak of the things of the world absolutely, and as it were, by rule.”— Francesco Guicciardini
“The Britain's Got Talent audience taught me that you should never judge a book by its cover.”— Susan Boyle
“He expressed his surprise that among the Greeks, those who were skilful in a thing contend, but those who have no skill in it act as judges.”— Anacharsis
“Conscience is a man's judgment of himself, according to the judgment of God of him.”— William Ames
“Nam non is solus cuius de vita quaeritur, sed qui audet, orat, et studet, iudex crit.”— Lucius Accius
“Criticism is the art of judging the qualities and values of an aesthetic object, whether in literature or the fine arts.”— M. H. Abrams
“For I think that you should not judge results by the acts of the speaker, but the acts of the speaker by the results.”— Aeschines
“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age.”— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
“The computer is only a tool. It's still the forecaster who has to make the final decision.”— Michael Fish
“I don't think there's any such thing as a 'serious' composer or a 'light' composer. There are just good composers and bad composers.”— William Bolcom
“The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.”— Karl Pearson