Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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!

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dandemis

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

Wallace, Lew

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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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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Winger, Debra

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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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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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

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

O'Hara, K.

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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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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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