Quotes About Judgment

the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it

Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves;

For want of modesty is want of sense.

if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.

Some people are weatherwise, but most are otherwise.

At 20 years of age the Will reigns; at 30 the Wit; at 40 the Judgment.

There was a difference, he said, between individuals years of maturity were not always accompanied with discretion, neither was youth in every instance devoid of it.

If what most men admire they would despise, It would look as if mankind were growing wise. He that would live in peace and ease Must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Better to be thought fhe fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly

discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

any other, was disgusted, and attended his preaching no more.

the prophets repeatedly declare "that the son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, but every one be answerable for his own sins.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads

The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

Bookstores should be broken down into two sections: books that suck and books that don't suck.

Wir können nicht unsere Hand dafür ins Feuer legen, wie wir unter bestimmten extremen Umständen reagieren. Seither bin ich Moralisten gegenüber sehr empfindlich.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

For in reality there exists a fundamental identity between the word that, after the promise of the snake, knows good and evil, and the externally communicating word. The knowledge of things resides in name, whereas that of good and evil is, in the profound sense in which Kierkegaard uses the word, "prattle," and knows only one purification and elevation, to which the prattling man, the sinner, was therefore submitted: judgment.

Who am I to judge? Who are you to pass verdicts? Who puts us on the bench? Have we heard all the evidence, or the hundredth part of it? Is there any possibility of us doing so? Are we not all equally in the dock? There is something tragically comic about the spectacle of one human being judging another.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste, and men without individuality have no taste--at any rate no taste that they can impose on their publics.