Judgment quotes and words of wisdom

"After a spirit of discernment the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls."
Jean de la Bruyere


"And differing judgments serve but to declare That truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where."
William Cowper


"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream."
The Bible


"Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgments are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing."
John Dalberg, Lord Acton


"I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned."
Arthur Wellesley


"If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now."
Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie


"In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which Are close around us."
Richard Whately


"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."
Arnold Bennett


"It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same God-like and superior impartiality."
Enoch Arnold Bennett


"Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one"s judgment to another"s, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God"s judgment by believing in every word He speaks."
Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé


"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man."
William Penn


"Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption."
Grenville Kleiser


"My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then!"
William Shakespeare


"People are where they are because that"s exactly where they really want to be ... whether they"ll admit that or not"
Earl Nightingale


"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
Henry Clay


"That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment."
Douglas Jerrold


"That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment."
Dorothy Parker


"The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass."
Unknown


"The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us."
Sydney J. Harris


"The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done."
Thomas ŕ Kempis


"We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
John Keats


"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white."
Eric Hoffer


Interesting Quotes

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