A Quote by Michel de Montaigne
I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.
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Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.
The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.
People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.
Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths, or to reject absurdities, and palpable contradictions.
It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome.
Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.
The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.
People really should examine themselves to determine why they are so hateful, cruel, and ignorant.
When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
Examine what you do and examine what other women do. Examine the dreams that men hold of you and how they force you in a corner, literally and figuratively.
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