Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Judgment

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters

Human judgment, like Luther’s drunken peasant, when saved from falling on one side, topples over on the other.
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72) Italian Patriot, Political Leader

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms—in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

The contemporary mind may in rare cases be taken by storm; but posterity never. The tribunal of the present is accessible to influence; that of the future is incorrupt.
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

A man is not good or bad for one action.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875–1950) American Popular Author

Never judge a man by his umbrella. It may not be his.
Anonymous

When one cannot appraise out of one’s own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American Poet

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.
Common Proverb

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–65) English Novelist, Short-Story Writer

Men of ill judgment often ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.
Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.
Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French Essayist, Intellectual

Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
Anne Mccaffrey (1926–2011) American-born Irish Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer

Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) English Courtier, Navigator, Poet

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet

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.
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) French Essayist

Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger object there. Very often we look (or converse) with a person, and we see or are aware of only a small sliver of their life and we may think that is all there is. Try to get to know more about the whole person!
Indian Proverb

Never judge someone by who he’s in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
Cynthia Heimel (1947–2018) American Humor Columnist, Feminist

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in the duties of life; cunning is a kind of instinct, that only looks out after our immediate interests and welfare. Discretion is only found in men of strong sense and good understanding; cunning is often to be met with in brutes themselves, and in persons who are but the fewest removes from them.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author

As the touchstone which tries gold, but is not itself tried by gold, such is he who has the true standard of judgment.
Epictetus (55–135) Ancient Greek Philosopher

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgment will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson (1875–1967) American Economist

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

While actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong, the judgments we pass upon men must be qualified by considerations of age, country, station, and other accidental circumstances; and it will then be found that he who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.
Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher

Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch (1919–99) British Novelist, Playwright, Philosopher

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