Quotes About Judgment

You never get a second chance to have a first impression.

When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every red weal or white pucker brings to my mind's eye that eternal fire, and the writhing masses of the damned, among whom I must expect to spend eternity.

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Not to he who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to he who does not concern us at all.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves, but who think others are.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt.

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

Trust your gut.

Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

Let the judges answer to the question of law, and the jurors to the matter of fact.

Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.