Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Percy, Ian

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

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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Russian

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.

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

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.

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

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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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

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

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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.

Heimel, Cynthia

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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

O'Hara, K.

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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

Shakespeare, William

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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

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

Sophocles

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A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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