Quotes About Judgment

Bun?tatea uman? poate fi g?sit? în orice grup, chiar È™i în cele pe care e uÈ™or s? le condamni în întregul lor.

does a man who makes his observations while he himself is a prisoner possess the necessary detachment? Such detachment is granted to the outsider, but he is too far removed to make any statements of real value. Only the man inside knows. His judgments may not be objective; his evaluations may be out of proportion. This is inevitable. An attempt must be made to avoid any personal bias, and that is the real difficulty...

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

if she had not been a gypsy, and if he had not been a priest

The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.

He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which the child was found, or because he wished to show by this name how imperfect and incomplete the poor little creature was. Indeed, Quasimodo, one eyed, hunchbacked, and knock kneed, was hardly more than half made.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. He was obliged to undergo it although he was a bishop, and because he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name was connected were rumors only,—noise, sayings, words; less than words— palabres, as the energetic language of the South expresses it.

As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.

Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men.

À ceux qui ignorent, enseignez-leur [...] Le coupable n'est pas celui qui y fait le péché, mais celui qui y a fait l'ombre.

The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

A man's eye reveals his quality. It shows how much of a man there is within us. We declare ourselves by the light that gleams under our eyebrows. Petty spirits merely wink; great spirits emit a flash of lightning.

Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.