Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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!

A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, Native American

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

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

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

Wallace, Lew

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

Child, Lydia M.

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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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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 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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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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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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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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

Percy, Ian

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

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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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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Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Shakespeare, William