Motivational Quotes

Judgment and judges

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

Best Quotes about Judgment and judges

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

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Mccaffrey, Anne

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Runes, Dagobert D.

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

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Parker, Theodore

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

Proverb, Native American

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

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

Wallace, Lew

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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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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 would judge, understand.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Be curious, not judgmental.

Whitman, Walt

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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Penn, William

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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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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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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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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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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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A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Winger, Debra

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