“All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.”
“Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge.”
“To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.”
“…but let us judge not that we be not judged.”
“How rich we are in knowledge, and in all that lies around us yet to learn. Billionaires, all of us.”
“The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.”