Judging Quotes - Page 36

• One judges an epoch as much by its Art as by its customs.

  Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

  Art, Epoch, Customs

  Letter to Sophie Brzeska-Savage Messiah By Harold Stanley (Jim) Ede, 1931.

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• Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

  John Milton

  Life, Daughter, Father

  John Milton (1822). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author ...”, p.216

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• Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Life, Power, Generosity

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• O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Brother, Art, Kings

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• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Heart, Knowledge

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• Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now, without judging.

  Marsha M. Linehan

  Letting Go, Acceptance, Psychology

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• We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tests, Novelty, Conformity

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

  Gautama Buddha

  People, Assumption, Judgment

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• It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Bystanders, Hands

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Hands, Understanding

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• It must be therefore, since the enemies of the Jews belonged to the most diverse races, since they lived in countries very distant from each other, since they were ruled by very different laws, governed by opposite principles, since they had neither the same morals, nor the same customs, since they were animated by unlike dispositions which did not permit them to judge of anything in the same way, it must be therefore that the general cause of anti-Semitism has always resided in Israel itself and not in those who have fought against Israel.

  Bernard Lazare

  Country, Race, Israel

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• We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

  Susan Anton

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• When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian, and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchill -- whether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains quite simply, a great man.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  1970 Political History, ch.2.

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• Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

  George Steinbrenner

  Baseball, Beer, Economy

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• American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows.

  John Philip Sousa

  Teacher, Light, Shadow

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• Judges need to restrict themselves to the proper resolution of the case before them. They need to avoid the temptation to set broad policy.

  Mike DeWine

  Temptation, Needs, Resolution

  Mike DeWine at U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Hearing on The Nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of The Supreme Court, www.washingtonpost.com. September 13, 2005.

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• Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Able, Yeats

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• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fighting, Your Side, Law

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.131, Random House

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• Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

  Johannes Tauler

  Real, Humility, Sinfulness

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• Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

  Artur Phleps

  Law, Reason, Witness

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• To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Character, Men

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• Calling home a close finish - And the judge has called for a photo, appropriately for the Bonusprint Sirenia Stakes.

  Graham Goode

  Horse, Home, Racing

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• At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

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• My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play

  Francis Quarles

  Play, Soul, Plot

  'Epigram: Respice Finem'

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• The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Practice, Justice, Judgement

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