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

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kafka, Franz

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If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

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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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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

Wallace, Lew

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Prayer, Sioux Indian

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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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 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