Quotes About Judgment

[The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

If I had to choose between a narrow-minded woman or a man who was an enlightened thinker, I would vote for the man.

Most men have at least one redeeming feature. Finding one for Brother Rike requires a stretch. Is 'big' a redeeming feature?

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

Without knowing every single detail in a man's life, we cannot judge whether he is a good person or not!

One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.