Quotes About Judgment

never permit the patient to pass to the doctor the responsibility of judging.

Who can throw a stone at a man who favors his friends under circumstances when, sooner or later, it is a question of life or death? No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

do not judge the life history of a particular person by the number of pages in the book that portrays it but only by the richness of the content it contains.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same. Long

There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one's opponent.

Pero a mí no me incumbe juzgar a los prisioneros que favorecían a su propia gente. ¿Quién se atrevería a arrojar la primera piedra contra aquel que favorece a sus amigos en unas circunstancias en que, tarde o temprano, la cuestión a ventilar era la vida o la muerte?Nadie debería juzgar, nadie, a no ser que con absoluta sinceridad, pudiera asegurar que, en una situación similar, actuaría de manera diferente.

So conscience is essentially intuitive. To anticipate what is not yet, but is to be made real, conscience must be based on intuition. And it is in this sense that conscience may be called irrational.

Keegi ei tohiks kohut mõista enne, kui ta on endale kõigutamatu aususega vastanud, kas ta ise oleks säärases olukorras kindlalt toiminud teisiti.

it would be very much a mistake to paint Ward as either innocent or a victim.

Nimium ne crede colori

Such were my wild words, for madness had mastered my judgement and gained complete control.

You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character.

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.

Roses, she thought sardonically, All trash, m'dear.

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples. [on James Joyce's Ulysses ]

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)

Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.