Judgement Quotes - Page 5

• It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

  Epictetus

  Taken, Wells, My Own

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• Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Decision, Poor, Persons

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• The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

  Walt Whitman

  Fall, Judging, Sun

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• The more you judge, the less you love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Judging, Criticism, Invention

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• We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Hurt, Reflection, Talking

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• I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

  Dorothy Day

  Inspirational, Believe, Mean

  "Dorothy Day Named National Hero By Obama At National Prayer Breakfast" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes.

  Elvis Presley

  Shoes, Abuse, Politics

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• Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, Beautiful Women

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.210

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• Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Age, Admiration

  "The Life of Samuel Johnson". Book by James Boswell, p. 485, 1791.

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• And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.

  Plato

  Ignorance, Skills, Judging

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• What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

  Sarah J. Maas

  Mind, Use, Ifs

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• We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

  Thomas Browne

  Experience, Tomorrow

  Sir Thomas Browne (1956). “Religio Medici, Hydrictaphia: Urne-burial, Christian Morals, On Dreams”

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• pain is inevitable,suffering is optional... we have bigger houses,but smaller families. More conveniences,but less time. We have knowledge,but less judgements; more experts,but more problems ; more medicines but less health.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Medicine, House

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• There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Deceiving

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Freedom, War, 4th Of July

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• Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Justice, Diversity, Judging

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.355, UPNE

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Judging, Quality

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.280

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• A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

  Publilius Syrus

  Firsts, Steps, Judgment

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• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

  Les Brown

  Judging People, Done, Reputation

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• Now I must live with the consequences of the choice I made. And I will not call it the wrong choice. That would be foolish and pointless. That choice led me to everything that has happened since, including this very moment, and the choices I make today or tomorrow or next week will lead me to the next and next present moments in my life. It is all a journey, Miss Jewell. I have come to understand that that is what life is all about-a journey and the courage and energy always to take the next step and the next without judgement about what was right and what was wrong.

  Mary Balogh

  Journey, Next Week, Choices

  Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.131, Delacorte Press

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• Would you rather be right or free?

  Byron Katie

  Spiritual, Freedom, Free Spirit

  Twitter post from Nov 08, 2011

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• We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

  Axl Rose

  Inspirational, Book, Judging

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• You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one.

  Michael Jackson

  Judging, Passing Judgment, Persons

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• How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!

  Sophocles

  Judging, Antigone, Prison

  Antigone (c. 442 b.c.).

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