Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

- Bataille, Georges

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

Prayer, Sioux Indian

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

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And are probably below it yourself.

Partridge, Frances

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

Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?

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

Wallace, Lew

If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

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

10.

There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

Camus, Albert

11.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

12.

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

Proverb, Russian

13.

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

14.

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

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

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

Proverb, Native American

17.

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

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

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

Sophocles

21.

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

Nordstrom Employee Manual

22.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

26.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Burger, Warren E.

28.

Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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!

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

35.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

Pilgrim, Peace

36.

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

Child, Lydia M.

37.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

38.

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

39.

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.

Percy, Ian

40.

If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

41.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see, but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are, and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.

O'Hara, K.

45.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Bataille, Georges

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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

49.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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

Serge, Victor