Judgment Quotes - Page 3

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

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Karma

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 11, 2011

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  Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wisdom, Eye, Reality

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Power, Judging

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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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• 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, Judgement, Done

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• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Nature, Interesting Situations

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.159

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• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Jealousy, Judging, Giving

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.199, Verso

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• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Congratulations, Men, Judging

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Evil, Judging, Judgement

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2814, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  E. W. Howe

  Running, Men, Average

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• Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Mind, Firsts, Concepts

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.385, Harvard University Press

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• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Errors, Hallucinations

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.149, Psychology Press

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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 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.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Sight, Judging

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• Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Listening To Others

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• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

  Mario Puzo

  Hate, Hatred, Enemy

  "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Two, Evil

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.100, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

  Richard Whately

  Law, Optics, Humans

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• I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.

  Lionel Abel

  Thinking, Judgement, Persons

  Lionel Abel (1987). “Important Nonsense”

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• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Justice, Observation

  "World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2013 - 2014 Update Edition". Book by Charles Kegley, p. 494, January 3, 2013.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Justice, Speak

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

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• Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

  John Selden

  Fall, Men

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.68

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• Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

  Henry Clay

  Funny, Humorous, Teaching

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• Time is the only critic without ambition.

  John Steinbeck

  Time, Ambition, Critics

  "Writers at Work, Fourth Series (On Critics)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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