Experts often possess more data than judgment.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

There’s no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

When I was researching my book ‚The 33 Strategies of War‘, I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask Napoleon questions about things he did, and if was I interpreting his actions correctly.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

I’m not an expert on the arms race.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

There is no gambling like politics.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.