Judging Quotes - Page 9

• We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.

  Richard Willstatter

  Science, Achievement, Important

  Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”

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• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Fashion, Simple

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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• To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religion, Atheism, Honest

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.

  John Selden

  Compassion, Would Be, Done

  John Selden (1856). “The table-talk of John Selden, with a biogr. preface and notes by S.W. Singer”, p.50

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• Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Motivational, Leadership, Inspiration

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• You cannot judge the value of a life by its length.

  Esther Hicks

  Aging, Length, Values

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• To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

  Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis

  Death, Real, Thinking

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• Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Home, Way

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• We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.

  Greg Norman

  Golf, Thinking, Games

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• No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Two, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gage (1980). “Goethe on Art”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.

  Harriet Lerner

  Judging Yourself, Mind, Stressed

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 26, 2014

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• Stop judging your life only by the failures.

  Michelle Sagara

  Michelle Sagara (2009). “Cast in Silence”, p.178, LUNA

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• Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

  Jacques Barzun

  Past, Style, Moral

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• Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories put to it; set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thy soul on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Mistake, Heart

  "The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in Heaven".

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• Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.

  Philip Sidney

  Peace, Sleep, Insomnia

  'Astrophel and Stella' (1591) sonnet 39

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• There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Hands, Giving

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• When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow? It's well known some criminals have been great men.

  Jean Genet

  Men, Opposites, Names

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Vanity, Criticism

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I cannot but be astonished that Sarsi should persist in trying to prove by means of witnesses something that I may see for myself at any time by means of experiment. Witnesses are examined in doutbful matters which are past and transient, not in those which are actual and present. A judge must seek by means of witnesses to determine whether Peter injured John last night, but not whether John was injured, since the judge can see that for himself.

  Galileo Galilei

  Truth, Mean, Science

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• A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

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• All we see of someone at any moment is a snapshot of their life, there in riches or poverty, in joy or despair. Snapshots don't show the million decisions that led to that moment.

  Richard Bach

  Decision, Joy, Despair

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• Judges don't age. Time decorates them.

  Enid Bagnold

  Funny, Humorous, Age

  Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

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• At 14, I was playing in clubs until 3 A.M. My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans and my mother was a judge, so I saw hookers and drugs but I never wanted that life.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Mother, Dad, Drug

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• Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It is so sweet to let others judge us in any way they like. O blessed silence, which gives so much peace to the soul!

  Therese of Lisieux

  Sweet, Blessed, Giving

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• Before you judge me... I plead guilty

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Judge Me, Guilty

  "Wit Me". Song by T.I., Lil Wayne, May 21, 2013.

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