Quotes About Judgment

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Negr?žtamai pasitrauk?, sekmadienio nakt? gav?s atleidim?, karaliaus – žvaigždininko s?nus, žiaurus penktasis Jud?jos prokuratorius raitelis Poncijus Pilotas

I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.

Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a healthy love for him.

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.)

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again...books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it.

If I had even the slightest grasp upon my own faculties, I would not make essays, I would make decisions.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger

To censure my own faults in some other person seems to me no more incongruous than to censure, as I often do, another's in myself. They must be denounced everywhere, and be allowed no place of sanctuary.

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

The contradictions of judgments, then, neither offend nor alter, they only rouse and exercise me. We evade correction, whereas we ought to offer and present ourselves to it, especially when it appears in the form of conference, and not of authority.

an outstanding memory is often associated with weak judgement.

they judge my affection by my memory and turn a natural defect into a deliberate one. 'We begged him to do this,' they say, 'and he has forgotten.' 'He has forgotten his promise.' 'He has forgotten his friends.' 'He never remembered – even for my sake – to say this, to do that or not to mention something else.

Man is indeed an object miraculously vain, various and wavering. It is difficult to found a judgement on him which is steady and uniform.

Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage.

To understand the essence and workings of insanity, Gallus Vibius strained his mind so that he tore his judgment from its seat and could never get it back again: he could boast he became mad through wisdom.1