Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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.

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

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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 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

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

O'Hara, K.

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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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Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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

Camus, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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

Wallace, Lew

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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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

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

Dandemis

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Percy, Ian

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

Prayer, Sioux Indian

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

Sophocles

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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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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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A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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If you would judge, understand.