Good Judges Quotes

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Education, Spiritual

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.3

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• If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

  Antonin Scalia

  Court Judges, Judging, Faithful

  Speech at Chapman Law School, August 2005.

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• A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

  George Herbert

  Judging

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.310

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• Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

  Samuel Alito

  Judging, Mind, Habit

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is not the master, but the minister of the law. Authority without virtue is a very dangerous state.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Law, Judging, Virtue

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• We are very good judges for the mistakes of others, but very good defence lawyers for our own mistakes.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Mistake, Judging, Lawyer

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2015

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• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." Longfellow "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

  Les Brown

  Judging People, Judgement, Done

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• I don't believe we need a good conservative judge, and I don't believe we need a good liberal judge. I subscribe to the Justice Potter Stewart standard. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. And he said the mark of a good judge, good justice, is that when you're reading their decision, their opinion, you can't tell if it's written by a man or woman, a liberal or a conservative, a Muslim, a Jew or a Christian. You just know you're reading a good judicial decision.

  John F. Kerry

  Christian, Believe, Reading

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hair, Justice, Judging

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.354

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• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Judging, Quality

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.280

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• Good judges are always open to the possibility of changing their minds based on the next brief that they read, or the next argument that's made by an attorney who's appearing before them, or a comment that is made by a colleague during the conference on the case when the judges privately discuss the case.

  Samuel Alito

  Judging, Mind, Next

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

  George Bernard Shaw

  Eggs, Judging, Judgement

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• Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Judging, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

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• By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

  Steven Pacey

  Jobs, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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• I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Children, Editors

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• Supreme Court nominees should know that this exercise of judicial restraint is the key ingredient of being good judge, as the Constitution constrains judges every bit as much as it constrains we legislators, executives and citizens in their actions.

  Chuck Grassley

  Exercise, Keys, Judging

  "U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Judge Samuel Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court". www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2006.

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• Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Character, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Apr 23, 2010

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• nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

  Therese of Lisieux

  Judging, Causes, Self-importance

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.114, ICS Publications

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• A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

  William Ralph Inge

  Character, Judging, Personality

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• In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Judging, Benches

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• While the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

  Mark Rothko

  Art, Doctors, Judging

  Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko (2006). “The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art”, p.2, Yale University Press

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• I've always been a very good judge of people. That's why I like so very few of them.

  Donna VanLiere

  People, Judging, Very Good

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• There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.

  Josh Billings

  Judging, Agree

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• In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

  Andrew Jackson

  Independent, Should Have, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• ...But we enjoyed playing games and were punished for them by men who played games themselves. However, grown-up games are known as 'business' and even though boys' games are much the same, they are punished for them by their elders. No one pities either the boys or the men, though surely we deserve pity, for I cannot believe that a good judge would approve of the beatings I received as a boy on the ground that my games delayed my progress in studying subjects which would enable me to play a less creditable game later in life.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Boys, Men

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