Quotes About Judgment

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Hell and Heaven are near man, yes, in him; and every man after death goes to that Hell or heaven in which he was, or to his spirit, during his abode in the world.

Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.