Quotes About Judgment

The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

justice hath no meaning lest it be tempered with mercy."26

As the designed events unfold in the lifetime, each involved being has the right of free will to choose any possible course of action, including the one which will lead to forgiveness, resolution and balancing past karmic debts. If the being makes an alternative choice, there is no punishment, recrimination, or judgment, just a different outcome

Risk, like pornography, is difficult to define, but we think we know it when we see it.

President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.

I imagined grief as a large black crow sitting on my shoulder like a captious shadow, watching everything I did, usually content to sit there quietly, but sometimes cawing judgment in my ear.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

Appearance too often takes the place of reality -- the stamp of the coin is there, and the glitter of the gold, but, after all, it is but a worthless wash. Sham is carried into every department of life, and we are being corrupted by show and surface. We are too apt to judge people by what they have, rather than by what they are; we have too few Hamlets who are bold enough to proclaim, "I know not seem!"

and what if I did drink too much? Whose business is that? Who knows how much I didn't drink?

Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?

What does she see in him?' Cork asked. 'He looks like a burned matchstick.

You stuff your own closet full of skeletons and you wonder what kind of bones everyone else has stuffed away.

A sensible man keeps out of politics

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence. We all suffer severely enough from the maintenance and support of false beliefs and the fatally wrong actions which they lead to, and the evil born when one such belief is entertained is great and wide.

To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly charismatic leader. They were to follow him blindly, as if he possessed a divine judgment, for the next twelve tempestuous years.

The interior of a teenager's mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

A jury could only declare my son 'not guilty', never 'innocent'.