Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

- Bagnold, Enid

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Dyer, Wayne

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

Rostand, Jean

The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Richelieu, Cardinal De

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.

Foucault, Michel

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But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Child, Lydia M.

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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

Kaufmann, Walter

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A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.

Parker, Lord Chief Justice

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Dyer, Wayne

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When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Proverb, Russian

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Rule # 1 -- Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

Nordstrom Employee Manual

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One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

Whately, Richard

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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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It is no little wisdom for a man to keep himself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to him, and to turn his heart to God and not to be troubled with man's judgment.

Kempis, Thomas

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A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

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Every act is to be judged by the intention of the agent.

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We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.

Alsaker, Dr.

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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms -- in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

Shakespeare, William

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I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.

Field, Marshall

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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Winger, Debra

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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Serge, Victor

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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Moore, Marianne

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To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

Dyer, Wayne

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Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

Runes, Dagobert D.

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Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger object there. Very often we look (or converse) with a person, and we see or are aware of only a small sliver of their life and we may think that is all there is. Try to get to know more about the whole person!

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Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Sophocles

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One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. If they seem okay, then you're the one.

Landers, Ann

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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.

Johnson, Samuel

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Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Franklin, Benjamin

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My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Kafka, Franz

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One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Wallace, Lew

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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Murdoch, Iris

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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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It is with our judgments as with our watches: no two go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Pope, Alexander

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Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Proverb, Native American

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We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.

Prayer, Sioux Indian