Quotes about Judgment

Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.

Benjamin Franklin, tactless in his youth, became so diplomatic, so adroit at handling people, that he was made American Ambassador to France. The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.

I judge people by their own principles — not by my own.

There is nothing either good or bad," said Shakespeare, "but thinking makes it so.

Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.

God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.

Half the nation savagely condemned these incompetent generals, but Lincoln, "with malice toward none, with charity for all," held his peace. One of his favorite quotations was "Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter? If so, isn't it bad judgment to try to ram your opinions down the throats of other people? Isn't it wiser to make suggestions—and let the other

Hans Selye, another great psychologist, said, "As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. Therefore he that resisteth the power, withstandeth the ordinance of God: and they that withstand shall receive to themselves judgment.

We stood in silence, and yet I heard a familiar voice saying, Listen here, child, that's God's little girl, baggage and all, so don't go judging the cover. He doesn't care what she looks like. He'll take her and us any way he can get us. Just like the woman at the well. Best you switch lenses and start seeing her that way too.