Arguing Quote by Mason Cooley

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

— V. S. Naipaul

The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

If you're a judge, don't make up your mind before you've heard the case

— Bible

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

— Woodrow Wilson

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may…

— John Stuart Mill

A good judge doesn't know the strength of the plaintiff's case until he's heard the defense.

— William Sheffield

“Thus, though there is a psychological tendency of accepting the judge’s verdict and reasoning as expert reasoning and tinge of finality adorned to his discretely…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I don't judge. Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

— Twyla Tharp

“for an informed judgment”

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“When we know someone’s full story, we can no longer judge them. Judgment blocks our understanding.
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— J.S. Wolfe