Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kafka, Franz

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wallace, Lew

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Percy, Ian

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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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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Rule # 1 -- Use your good judgment in all situations. There will be no additional rules.

Nordstrom Employee Manual

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

O'Hara, K.

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

Prayer, Sioux Indian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sophocles

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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

Child, Lydia M.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid