Quotes About Judgment

What do any of us really know about others? Each of us has his own Day of Judgement inside himself.

Da uno che non sa ridere non ci si può aspettare misericordia.

The shadkhn was impressing the young woman with the boundless virtues of a female and ended: "And to look at, she's a regular picture!" The young man could not wait for his blind date. But when he accosted the shadkhn the next day, his voice was frosty: "Her eyes are crossed, her nose is crooked, and when she smiles one side of her mouth goes down—" "Just a minute," interrupted the shadkhn. "Is it my fault you don't like Picasso?

The rabbi of Chelm visited the prison, and there he heard all but one of the inmates insist on their innocence. So he came back, held a council of wise men, and recommended that Chelm have two prisons: one for the guilty and another for the innocent.

It has been said that the basic principle of Jewish ethics lies in the idea of mandatory mitzvas. Said Eleazar ben Simeon: "The world is judged by the majority of its people [and] an individual by the majority of his deeds. Happy is he who performs a good deed: that may tip the scale for him and the world [italics mine]." Israel Zangwill called the mitzvas the Jews' "sacred sociology.

FOLK SAYING: "Better to be in Gehenna with a wise man than in Gan Eden [Paradise] with a fool.

PROVERB: "A wise man, looking for a bride, should take an ignoramus along to advise him.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

Because of the self-confidence with which he had spoken, no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid.

It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

There are such repulsive faces in the world.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

that horrible acts are caused, in part, by our very tendency to assume that some people are naturally evil.

On Lincoln: A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

When he undressed at night he was like a diplomat or a judge. A white body, gentle and powerless, emerged from his clothes, his position in the world lay tumbled on the floor, fallen from his ankles...

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

Thinking the day of judgment was imminent, farmers did not plant crops. Many people gave themselves over to alcohol. Civil and economic disruption may have caused as much death as the disease itself.

Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.

It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because, allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christian.

neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.