Esteem Quote by Ayn Rand

“Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in natural knowledge set afoot by the…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

One's own independent judgment is the means by which one must choose one's actions, but it is not a moral criterion nor a moral…

— Ayn Rand

“It‘s so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea. Though how in hell one passes judgment on a man…

— Ayn Rand

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as…

— Ayn Rand

“On behalf of the deference under the Administrative Procedure Act, it is said that Congress is not constitutionally barred from authorizing deference—as if Congress…

— Philip Hamburger

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

— Sydney J. Harris

“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group, for poor…

— Howard Zinn

People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.

— David Folkenflik

“He was beholden to no one, and would never take on trust what others might maintain to be true without himself coming to an…

— Richard Feynman

Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has it may…

— Pietro Aretino

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

— William Penn

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

— Duke of Wellington