Quotes About Judgment

My boy," returned my father, "you must not judge by the work, but by the work in connection with the surroundings. Could Giotto or Filippo Lippi, think you, have got a picture into the Exhibition? Would

we must judge men not so much by what they do, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to do.

In order to fulfil its role in guarding the purity of its membership, the church must have a doctrinal standard, and that standard must be published openly, for men have a right to know by what particulars they will be judged. To require the church to exercise discipline against doctrinal error without a published confession of faith is to require it to make bricks without straw.

In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

It is the just doom of laziness and a gluttony to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

The woman's a whore, and there's an end on 't.

Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.

Blown about by every wind of criticism.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him.

But to think of the clatter they make with his coach, and his own fine clothes, and yet how meanly they live within doors, and nastily, and borrowing everything of neighbors.

I say I think my poems now are finer than anything I've ever done; I only hope that is the judgement of a ruined mind, with critical faculties shocked and fragmented on grief; because if they are great ... they cost too much!

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.