Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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!

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

Bagnold, Enid

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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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

Prayer, Sioux Indian

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Twain, Mark

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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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If you judge, investigate.

Seneca

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

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A man is not good or bad for one action.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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.