Quotes About Judgment

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone.

I have believed the best of every man, and find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Thousands upon thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!

My sin and judgment are alike peculiar. I am a castaway, deserted and condemned.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me; Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me. Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers, Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence Worse than Abiram's. Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, am Buried above ground.

I, fed with judgment, in a fleshy tomb, am Buried above ground.

To sit a fine Christian gentleman down in close proximity to an unsavoury crowd of prostitutes was bad enough. Even worse was to allow him to be humiliated intellectually by the afore-mentioned rabble. (When you must have know perfectly well that it is not given to mere policemen, as it is to street-walkers, to think coherently on their feet).

If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.

We try to see patterns, to judge the events in our lives as rewards or punishment, parse things into good and evil. But there is a randomness to life that is beyond analysis...

No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.

The world is governed by opinion.

I had much more fun criticizing than praising.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.

Among respectable people a man who took upon himself the cares and expenses of a family before he had secured a regular trade or profession, or had accumulated some capital, and who allowed his wife to lose caste, and his children to be dirty, ragged, and neglected, would be severely blamed by the public opinion of the community. The

the human brain is ill-equipped to make rational decisions. Our judgment is frequently torpedoed by emotions such as fear, greed, jealousy, and impatience; by prejudices that distort our perception of reality;

The scientific literature shows that hunger, anger, loneliness, tiredness, pain, and stress are common "preconditions for poor decision making." So Shubin Stein uses an acronym, HALT-PS, as a reminder to pause when those factors might be impairing his judgment and postpone important decisions until he's in a state in which his brain is more likely to function well.* This is our seventh technique for reducing avoidable stupidity.

They succumb to the egotistical delusion that they can predict the future, instead of recognizing the limits of their knowledge. And they leap blindly into manias, their judgment fogged by "return envy" and the fear of missing out.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.