Quotes About Judgment

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

She's just a typical bourgeois reactionary.' 'You mean, her prejudices are different from yours.

was probably significant that he was physically short-sighted. He could not recognise people until almost upon them. Their faces were like so many buns. Good-natured buns, he would have said, but Harriet did not agree. She saw them in detail and did not like them any the better for it.

The trouble with prejudice is, there's usually a reason for it,' but she now knew better than to say this to Guy.

In a thousand years archaeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge the effects without attending to the causes.

How can we judge another person without imprisoning that person in his past acts? Without shackling him to one moment of his development?

In particular, if Christians must reject the death penalty, it is not from an idolatrous sacralization of biological life, but in order to leave a person the opportunity of repentance. Remember this, and you will no longer judge: Judas was an apostle, and the thief crucified at Christ's right hand was a murderer. What a transformation in an instant! John Climacus The Ladder of Divine Ascent,

La difficoltà, in fotografia, è di prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, giudicandolo freddamente, facendo a meno del vissuto e dell'emozione che ci uniscono all'immagine.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

There are two kind of men,' said Ka, in a didatic voice. 'The first kind does not fall in love until he's seen how the girls eats a sandwich, how she combs her hair, what sort of nonsense she cares about, why she's angry at her father, and what sort of stories people tell about her. The second type of man -- and I am in this category -- can fall in love with a woman only if he knows next to nothing about her.

It may not happen in the first instant, but within ten minutes of meeting a man, a woman has a clear idea of who he is, or at least who he might be for her, and her heart of hearts has already told her whether or not she's going to fall in love with him.

What is difficult to acknowledge is that I saw this mistake coming and second-guessed myself, went against my own intuitive judgment. It wasn't that I had not seen the truth. I had. But I failed to find the courage to act on it. Of course, my intuition can be wrong. But making a wrong decision, acting on an intuition that is inaccurate, is a real mistake, one I can live with more easily than the mistake of failing to act on what, to the best of my ability, I know.

Ma chi capisce tutto e tutti finisce con l'assolvere tutto e tutti. Chi assolve tutto e tutti finisce col perdonare tutto e tutti. Chi perdona tutto e tutti non crede a nulla. E chi non crede a nulla, mia cara, è un cinico. Tout court.