Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

America is just downright mean.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to me.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

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.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

I hated the Naked Chef. Fine, yes, he did good things for school food or whatever, but, you know, I don’t want my chefs to be cute and adorable.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

I am such a political person.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

I’m evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Trump has no sense of shame.

To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who they think is the better player. It is what it is, but there is no rivalry beyond games and what happens on the pitch.

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.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

If you would judge, understand.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.