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Quotes About Judgment

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
~ Henry David Thoreau
if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions, and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads.
~ Henry David Thoreau
greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad
~ Henry David Thoreau
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes
~ Henry David Thoreau
The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried.
~ Henry David Thoreau
En büyük ve en yayg?n hatalar?n sürdürülebilmesi için olabildiÄŸince tarafs?z bir erdem gerekir.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Some of the evils to which theology says that Lust will give rise are: blindness of intellect in respect of divine things; precipitancy in acting without judgment; want of regard for what befits one's state or person; inconstancy in good; hatred of God as an Avenger of such sins; love of this world and its pleasures; inordinate fear of death.
~ Henry Fairlie
I had now regained my liberty, said the stranger; but I had lost my reputation; for there is a wide difference between the case of a man who is barely acquitted of a crime in a court of justice, and of him who is acquitted in his own heart, and in the opinion of the people.
~ Henry Fielding
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
~ Henry Fielding
it was the universal opinion of all Mr Allworthy's family that he was certainly born to be hanged.
~ Henry Fielding
An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.
~ Henry Fielding
Indeed, if this woman had lived in the reign of James the First, her appearance alone would have hanged her, almost without any evidence.
~ Henry Fielding
The American psychologists classified persons on the basis of IQ tests, labeling those judged feebleminded in descending order as morons, imbeciles, or idiots
~ Henry Friedlander
Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
~ Henry James
One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
~ Henry James
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.
~ Henry James
A fig for my opinion! If you fall in love with Mr. Osmond what will you care for that? Not much, probably. But meanwhile it has a certain importance. The more information one has about one's dangers the better. I don't agree to that—it may make them dangers. We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
~ Henry James
he escaped all criticism but his own, which was much the most competent and most formidable.
~ Henry James
To gaze into the depths of blue of the child's eyes and pronounce their loveliness a trick of premature cunning was to be guilty of a cynicism in preference to which I naturally preferred to abjure my judgment and, so far as might be, my agitation.
~ Henry James
We know too much about people in these days; we hear too much. Our ears, our minds, our mouths, are stuffed with personalities. Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
~ Henry James
Which of my two critics was I to believe? I didn't worry about it and very soon made up my mind they were both idiots.
~ Henry James