Quotes About Judgment

There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

You have to be careful who you let define your good.

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged on one thing: the result.

There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

There is another way of disqualifying the metaphysicians.... Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. "A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth;" and "Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature, -- were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature.

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing.

I had such a reputation, and it was sad because I felt like it so didn't represent who I really was.

the Arminian makes a fatal concession. Figuratively speaking, he cuts his own throat, for the simple reason that as God foresees those who will be saved, He also sees those who will be lost! Why, then, does He create those who will be lost? Certainly,

You have always been smart. You have always looked for the worst in people, and have been quick to notice when people are up to no good... But in the case of your children, you are blind.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

It won't do to shrink from hard speeches and judgments when they are necessary. But it is horrible to make them when one is not compelled.

Nearly everybody yields up his conscience, his practical judgment, into the keeping of others.

I exhort you never to debase the moral currency or to lower the standard of rectitude, but to try others by the final maxim that governs your own lives, and to suffer no man and no cause to escape the undying penalty which history has the power to inflict on wrong.

Sense sends to Imagination before Reason have judged, & Reason sends over to Imagination before decree can be acted.

Thou need'st not answer; thy confession speaks, Already redd'ning in thy guilty cheeks.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Common sense is the best sense I know of

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.