Selected judgment quotes

1. There, but for the grace of God, goes God.

2. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?,' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

3. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

4. Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

5. The monster London laugh at me.

6. Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

7. A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself.

8. A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

9. A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

10. To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

11. One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.

12. Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

13. I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

14. Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

15. I don't know if God would agree with me, but believing in God is kind of unimportant when compared to believing in yourself. Because if you go with the idea that God gave you a mind and an ability to judge things, then he would want you to believe in yourself and not worry about believing in him. By believing in yourself you will come to the conclusion that will point to something.

16. Oh, I've wept. Yeah, I've definitely wept just with the world, you know, how judgmental they are. You know what, I know I'm a good mom.

17. A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

18. Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

19. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

20. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

21. Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

22. I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

23. I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

24. We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.

25. Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

26. As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

27. Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

28. If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

29. It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

30. 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.

31. It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

32. There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

33. If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

34. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

35. Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

36. Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

37. Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

38. At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

39. One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

40. Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me.

41. In like a dimwit, out like a light.

42. An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

43. Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves.

44. There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.

45. Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

46. I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

47. I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.

48. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

49. You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.

50. He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

51. The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

52. Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

53. Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

54. Best they honor thee Who honor in thee only what is best.

55. We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilisation will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation.

56. It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.

57. Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

58. There are a lot of bad Republicans; there are no good Democrats.

59. I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.

60. 'There is no God,' the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what He might have done with us It's better only guessing.'

61. 'Tis possible, young sir, that some excess Mars youthful judgment and old men's no less; Yet we must take our counsel as we may For (flying years this lesson still convey), 'Tis worst unwisdom to be overwise, And not to use, but still correct one's eyes.

62. Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you come into a room and sit down with them, so often ask you, 'What do you do?' And, being American, many's the time I've almost asked that question, then realized it's good for my soul not to know. For a while! Just to let the evening wear on and see what I think of this person without knowing what he does and how successful he is, or what a failure. We're ranking everybody every minute of the day.

63. I was thought to be stuck up. I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

64. Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

65. 'I care more about what God knows than what man says.'

66. The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.

67. I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: 'That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going....'

68. When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, 'the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery',' and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of 'the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.'

69. Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

70. It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

71. It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

72. We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy - at least until we have become as clever as they are.

73. What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

74. What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

75. Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.

76. Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

77. We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

78. In men this blunder still you find,- All think their little set mankind.

79. Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

80. Wisdom is one thing - to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

81. I have only one eye,- I have a right to be blind sometimes . . . I really do not see the signal!

82. In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still. In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two, where God has not.

83. The fifties were when people started coming down on 'juvenile delinquents,' 'hoodlums,' 'vandals'--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

84. The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

85. They hate you if you're clever, and they despise a fool.

86. The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

87. Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck.

88. Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

89. Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy.

90. We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one's balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship's compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.

91. Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

92. Hate the sin and love the sinner.

93. The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

94. I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I do know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?,' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

95. If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

96. An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

97. Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

98. Neither have they hearts to stay, Nor wit enough to run away.

99. He who praises everybody praises nobody.

100. Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see.