Quotes About Judgment

To get angry is easy, to get angry with the right person, the right moment and for the right reason is difficult.

See why I think I owe you good advice? And please don't look on me with prejudice: My gender has no bearing on the question Whether I'm offering you a good suggestion.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Each man judges correctly those matters with which he is acquainted; it is of these that he is a competent critic.

Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been educated in a subject is a good judge of that subject, and the man who has received an all-round education is a good judge in general.

But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.

absuelve y no cuando condena

Death is evil. So the gods decided. Otherwise they would die.

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.

I guess I'll just … play it by ear." She could have bitten her tongue off.

Sentimentality blinds you!

I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality

Ob?utek sramu potrebuje druge ljudi.

When in doubt, say nothing and move on.

Otto would pull the trigger at the slightest provocation and you, Michael, would agonize aver its morality even if your life were threatened. I'm the tiebreaker.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence.

For well-bred people do not, after all, care to read about the social gaffes of others.

Otsusta minu üle mu tegude järgi, ehkki neid on vähe, mitte mu sõnade järgi, kuigi neid on palju.

For it was their world, not Man's. However he might shape it for his own purposes, it would be his duty always to safeguard the interests of its rightful owners. No one could tell what part they might have to play in the history of the universe. And when, as was one day inevitable, Man himself came to the notice of yet higher races, he might well be judged by his behaviour here on Mars.

Their little universe is very young, and its god is still a child. But it is too soon to judge them; when We return in the Last Days, We will consider what should be saved.