Judgment Quotes - Page 3

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Karma

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 11, 2011

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  Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

  Henry James

  Friendship, Relationship, Judging

  Henry James (2016). “The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master”, p.172, University of Chicago Press

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• You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Meaningful

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.422, Createspace Independent Pub

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  Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Wisdom, Eye, Reality

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• No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Umpires, Judging, Enemy

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.212, Penguin

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Nature, Interesting Situations

  Jane Austen (1841). “Emma: A Novel”, p.159

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• Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Sight, Judging

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• How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Evil, Judging, Judgement

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2814, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  E. W. Howe

  Running, Men, Average

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• A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Science, Errors, Hallucinations

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.149, Psychology Press

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• Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Mind, Firsts, Concepts

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, p.385, Harvard University Press

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• Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Congratulations, Men, Judging

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• It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Mom, Mother

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Jealousy, Judging, Giving

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.199, Verso

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• Earn the right to be heard by listening to others. Seek to understand a situation before making judgments about it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Listening To Others

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• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

  Mario Puzo

  Hate, Hatred, Enemy

  "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Justice, Observation

  "World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 2013 - 2014 Update Edition". Book by Charles Kegley, p. 494, January 3, 2013.

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• Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

  Henry Clay

  Funny, Humorous, Teaching

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• I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.

  Lionel Abel

  Thinking, Judgement, Persons

  Lionel Abel (1987). “Important Nonsense”

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• In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us.

  Richard Whately

  Law, Optics, Humans

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• There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Two, Evil

  Gordon Leidner, Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches”, p.100, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.

  William Shakespeare

  Jealous, Justice, Speak

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 338

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• Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

  John Selden

  Fall, Men

  John Selden, Richard Milward (1821). “Seldeniana: with a biographical preface”, p.68

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• Time is the only critic without ambition.

  John Steinbeck

  Time, Ambition, Critics

  "Writers at Work, Fourth Series (On Critics)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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