Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Dandemis

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

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

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

Wallace, Lew

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

O'Hara, K.

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

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

Sophocles

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

Camus, Albert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Percy, Ian

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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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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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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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.