Quotes About Judgment

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn

Yo desprecio tu desprecias; y puesto que me has advertido a mí, ¿por qué no te advertiste a ti?

Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.

The infuriating thing about an individual way of living. People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

Sudovi, vrednosni sudovi o životu, za ili protiv, ne mogu naposletku nikada biti istiniti: oni imaju vrednost samo kao simptomi, oni dolaze u obzir samo kao simptomi - takvi sudovi su sami po sebi budalaštine.

Ich mag eure kalte Gerechtigkeit nicht; und aus dem Auge eurer Richter blickt mir immer der Henker und sein kaltes Eisen. (Ich don't like your cold justice; and from the eyes of your judges seems to always gaze the hangman and his cold iron.)

A small revenge is humaner than no revenge at all. And if the punishment be not also a right and an honor to the transgressor, I do not like your punishing. Nobler is it to own oneself in the wrong than to establish one's right, especially if one be in the right. Only, one must be rich enough to do so. I do not like your cold justice; out of the eye of your judges there always glanceth the executioner and his cold steel. Tell me: where find we justice, which is love with seeing eyes?

Enemy you shall say but not villain, sick you shall say but not wretch, fool you shall say but not sinner.

O my friends! Thus speaketh the discerning one: shame, shame, shame—that is the history of man!

Aside from a few philosophers, men have always placed pity rather low in the hierarchy of moral feelings—and rightly so.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No.

Shame, shame, shame—that is the history of the human!

Wir haben den Begriff Zweck erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ist ein Stück Verhängniss, man gehört zum Ganzen, man ist im Ganzen, - es giebt Nichts, was unser Sein richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen könnte, denn das hiesse das Ganze richten, messen, vergleichen, verurtheilen... Aber es giebt Nichts ausser dem Ganzen!

Women are horrible. I mean, quite as horrible as men. Oh, is there anyone in the wide world that has aught but ice water in his or her veins?

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

But there was no room at the inn; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King.

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

We simply cannot put a man into a crucible to see if he will give off unmistakable green fumes of envy.

Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.

The mind has three operations: the formation of ideas, judgements and reasoning.

Fulton J. Sheen "Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked." ? Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

Those who call black black and white white are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.