Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

O'Hara, K.

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

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

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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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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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

Camus, Albert

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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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

Percy, Ian

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

Proverb, Native American

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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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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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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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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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

Wallace, Lew

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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