Judging Quotes

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

Marcus Aurelius

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.

Anne McCaffrey

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Cardinal De Richelieu

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

Franz Kafka

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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.

Marshall Field

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Sally Field

Judge a man not by his income, but by his outcome.

Scott Sorrell

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Philip Roth

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.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

Eric Hoffer

It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Arnold Bennett

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.

Proverb

We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.

Warren Earl Burger

Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it.

Franz Kafka

All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.

David R. Hawkins

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Napoleon Hill

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.

Jean Rostand

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

Wayne Dyer