Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place the come down and shoot the survivors.
- Topic: Judgment
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More Quotes from Ernest Hemingway
You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
I drink to make other people more interesting.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
More on Judgment
Do not peer too far.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Nobody likes the man who brings bad news.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
