Quotes About Judgment

Il vaut mieux se taire et passer pour un con plutôt que de parler et de ne laisser aucun doute sur le sujet.

On sait à peu près pourquoi une Å"uvre est mauvaise. Mais bien moins pourquoi elle est bonne.

It is the man who can't be trusted who does not trust others because he judges them by himself.

It is the untrustworthy man who distrusts others, because he judges them by himself.

One day you'll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder

let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The author's Socrates admonishes paramount awareness human limitations. If we do good to those we evaluate as good and evil to those we evaluate at the evil, and we are wrong, we have been made the world less just.

there is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.

Pooh, he said. Much alike, aren't they, this case and that! There is nothing to hinder their being so, said I, but even if they are not alike and if the man thinks they are, do you believe he will any the less answer what appears to him, whether we forbid him or not?

Yes, but do not persons often err about good and evil: many who are not good seem to be so, and conversely? That

We should not then think so much of what the majority will say about us, but what he will say who understands justice and injustice, the one, that is, and the truth itself.

The wisest have the most authority

The untrained mind keeps up a running commentary, labelling everything, judging everything. Best to ignore that commentary. Don't argue or resist, just ignore. Deprived of attention and interest, this voice gets quieter and quieter and eventually just shuts up.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

But when I hear other kinds of discussion, especially the talk of rich businessmen like you, I get bored and feel sorry for you and your friends, because you think you're doing something important, when your're not. Perhaps you regard me as a failure, and I think you're right. But I don't THINK you're a failure, I KNOW you are.

If you expect to stop denunciation of your wrong way of life by putting people to death, there is something amiss with your reasoning. This way of escape is neither possible nor creditable; the best and easiest way is not to stop the mouths of others, but to make yourselves as well behaved as possible. This is my last message to you who voted for my condemnation.

Never mind the manner, which may or may not be good; but think only of the truth of my words, and give heed to that: let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly. (Socrates)

No tendrás, pues, que establecer en la ciudad, junto con esa judicatura, un cuerpo médico de individuos como aquellos de que hablábamos, que cuiden de tus ciudadanos que tengan bien constituidos cuerpo y alma, pero, en cuanto a los demás, dejen morir a aquellos cuya deficiencia radique en sus cuerpos o condenen a muerte ellos mismos a los que tengan un alma naturalmente mala e incorregible?

Never trust what you see on Goodreads.

I shall reproach [30]him because he attaches little importance to the most important things and greater importance to inferior things.

ha habido razón para decir que hay ciertas opiniones que debemos respetar y otras que debemos despreciar