Suspend Judgement Quotes

#1. Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement ...

Rene Descartes

#3. Philosophers say that people are all guided by a single standard. When they assent to a thing, it is because they feel it must be true, when they dissent, it is because they feel something isn't true, and when they suspend judgement, it is because they feel that the thing is unclear.

Epictetus

#4. The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.

Sextus Empiricus

#5. There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

John Steinbeck

#6. Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.

Frederick Lenz

#7. In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

Jay Griffiths

#8. What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

Barack Obama

#9. I am pleased the Lord made my skin Black. I wish He had made it thicker.

Curt Flood

#10. Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Sydney Smith

#11. I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and cooking. When I learn, I grow.

Tim Matheson

#12. Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

John Lubbock

#13. The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie

Stephen King

#14. The only two people who can understand a relationship are the two people in it,

Anna Carey

#15. We were just so bad at being together. He felt as guilty as I felt pathetic, and it made us closer, for a while.

Lindy West

#16. Desire for gain and fear of loss burn like fire.

Dorothy Norman

#17. You shouldn't be shy," he told her. "I'd give my soul for a glimpse of you without your clothes."
"Don't joke about that."
"About seeing you naked? I wasn't joking."
"Your soul," Helen said earnestly. "It's too important.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.

Mortimer J. Adler

#19. Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#20. I ask you now, is any little thing like being damned eternally a satisfactory excuse for behaving like a complete rat?

Fritz Leiber

#21. Don't fall in love with your wit. Your cleverly turned phrase may not, as you hope, show off how much gray matter you have, especially if the phrase is at someone else's expense.

Harvey MacKay

#22. Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.

Ralph Waldo Emerson