Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Judging

• We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Hope, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

• Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Dream, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.71, Harvard University Press

• It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Past, Judging

• It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Judging, Creative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.334, Modern Library

• At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. The knapsack of custom falls off his back with the first step he makes into these precincts. Here is sanctity which shames our religions, and reality which discredits our heroes. Here we find Nature to be the circumstance which dwarfs every other circumstance, and judges like a god all men that come to her.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Fall, Hero

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.541, Library of America

• We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Judging, Belief

• Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.305, University of Georgia Press

• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Land, Squares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1081, Library of America

• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Pride, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

• It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.58, Bantam Classics

• The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brave Face, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.413

• A man cannot speak but he judges himself

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Judging, Judgement

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.294, Library of America

• No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Art, Travel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.393

• Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Judging, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.237

• The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Land, America

• Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Judging, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1102, Library of America

• The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hair, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

• A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Men, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.142, Penguin

• A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pigs, Judging, May

• We judge of a man's wisdom by his hope, knowing that the inexhaustibleness of nature is an immortal youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

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