Judging Quotes - Page 34

• Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to have judges take decisions which should properly be made by democratically elected politicians.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Decision, Weakness

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• Public disclosure of campaign contributions and spending should be expedited so voters can judge for themselves what is appropriate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Campaigns, Voters, Should

  "Mitch McConnell’s Meanderings" by Christopher Brauchli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2012.

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• Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Feelings, Ephemeral

  "The portable Jack Kerouac".

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• The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

  Alcee Hastings

  Flames, California, Middle East

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• He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

  Johannes Tauler

  Spiritual, Fall, Men

  "The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)".

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• Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.

  Robert Southey

  Spiritual, Over You, Mind

  Robert Southey (1858). “The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of methodism”, p.21

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• How much the more in judging of the human heart should we distrust all fashionable airs and graces, all tricks and smartness, learnt only to please the outward gaze

  Murasaki Shikibu

  Heart, Air, Grace

  Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.62, Tuttle Publishing

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• We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

  Ernst Troeltsch

  History, Ethics

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• No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively. Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me. I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others. If I judge others, I am probably judging myself. Whoever is upsetting me most is my best teacher. I have much to learn from him or her, and in my hearts, I should thank that person.

  Bill W.

  Teacher, Heart, Responsibility

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• Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.

  Eliphas Levi

  Speak

  Eliphas Levi (2016). “The Key of the Mysteries”, p.35, Eliphas Levi

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• No man can hope to find out the truth without investigation.

  George F. Richards

  Men, Investigation

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• If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.

  Imre Lakatos

  Lying, Numbers, Energy

  "Peirce's Theory of Inquiry and Beyond" by Thora Margareta Bertilsson, (p. 41), 2009.

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• We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Thinking, Research, Able

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• The endless, useless urge to look on life comprehensively, to take a bird's-eye view of ourselves and judge the dimensions of what we have or have not done: this is life as landscape, or life as résumé. But life is incremental, and though a worthwhile life is a gathering together of all that one is, good and bad, successful and not, the paradox is that we can never really see this one thing that all of our increments (and decrements, I suppose) add up to.

  Christian Wiman

  Eye, Successful, Views

  "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer". Book by Christian Wiman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2013.

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• There's a story behind every person. There's a reason why they're the way they are. Think about that before you judge anyone.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Thinking, Stories, Way

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• Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.

  Harry Burns

  Mother, Dream, Perfect

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• I would ask that people judge us, judge me, based on our record, based on what we actually did.

  Christy Clark

  People, Records, Judge Me

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• I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.

  Maria Monk

  Opportunity, Thinking, Credibility

  Maria Monk (1837). “Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, a narrative of her sufferings in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal”, p.5

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• How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!

  James Payn

  Educational, Gentleman, Bills

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• In July of 1983, I left Washington, DC area and have had minimal contact with Judge Clarence Thomas since

  Anita Hill

  July, Washington Dc, Contact

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• The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

  Jacques Verges

  Government, Usa, Asking

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• A leader is a coach, not a judge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Leadership, Leader, Coaches

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• Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Math, Decision, Appeals

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). “Number: The Language of Science”, Dutton Juvenile

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• How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound of a tortured animal need to be to make you want to hear it that badly? Try to imagine any end other than taste for which it would be justifiable to do what we do to farmed animals.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Artist, Animal, Trying

  “Flesh of your flesh” by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

  Pope Innocent III

  Evil, May, Pope

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