Quotes About Judgment

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me.

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Hell itself is truth known too late

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

The law is agnostic about truth.

The truth is that judgment and fear will never stop, but they don't actually do anything.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

Truth is disputable, not human taste.

not judging truth to be in nature better than falsehood, but setting a value upon both according to interest.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.

Asked for your opinion on the prints, you have two choices: truth or tact. I ask for the bathroom.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.

Criticizing others is a dangerous thing, not so much because you may make mistakes about them, but because you may be revealing the truth about yourself.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.