Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

If you would judge, understand.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Nordstrom Employee Manual

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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.

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

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Proverb, Russian

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

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

Wallace, Lew

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

Percy, Ian

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

Sophocles

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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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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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If you would judge, understand.

Seneca

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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 condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Dandemis

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

Winger, Debra

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Twain, Mark

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Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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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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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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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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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.