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

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

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

If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

Prayer, Sioux Indian

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Camus, Albert

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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Proverb, Native American

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

Wallace, Lew

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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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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 man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

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I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Winger, Debra

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

O'Hara, K.

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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sophocles

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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