Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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

Wallace, Lew

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

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

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dandemis

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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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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

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

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A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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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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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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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

Percy, Ian

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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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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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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 hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Prayer, Sioux Indian

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Native American

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

Child, Lydia M.