Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?'
As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
- J R R Tolkien
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
- Douglas Adams
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?
- Mortimer Adler
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
- Paulo Coelho
She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.
- Jodi Picoult
No, I chastised myself. I should be happy for him. I'd let him go. I'd turned down his request to be with me, so now I had no room to judge who he chose to be with. I needed to be happy for him, but I wasn't. Knowing he was laughing and smiling with someone else, that he was flirting and teasing someone who wasn't me ignited a feeling inside me that I'd fought so hard to bury. Suddenly, I was drawn to him like I hadn't been in years, and I couldn't ignore it.
- Monica Alexander
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?"
"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.
- Lloyd Alexander
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
- Jesse Jackson
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
- Eric Alterman
I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
- Tori Amos
When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
- Tori Amos
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
- Hermann Hesse
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
- Joan Of Arc
Here's something for you to think about," he said, his voice deliberately light. "At the moment, it would appear to an objective bystander that the two of us are in a far more incriminating situation than Heath and Raine."
Startled,she pulled away from him, her eyes wide.
"Which should remind us," Damon continued evenly,"not to judge by appearances.
- Lisa Kleypas
Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?"
"I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her."
"Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound.
- Melina Marchetta
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
- Francis Bacon
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
- Saint Augustine
When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.
- Steve Maraboli
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
- Jane Austen
It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work, and how she will, probably, contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable -- whether by her imprudence, vulgarity, or jealousy -- whether by intercepting her letters, ruining her character, or turning her out of doors.
- Jane Austen
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn't mean it's not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
- Albert Camus
My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.
- Albert Camus
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
- Albert Camus
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
- Albert Camus
Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.
- Haruki Murakami
You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
- Haruki Murakami
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.
- Haruki Murakami
Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.
- John Desmond Bernal
Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.
- John Desmond Bernal
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good order or harmoniousness of his or her surroundings. We must suspect that any statistical justification of ugliness and violence is a revelation of stupidity. (pg.192-193, People, Land, and Community)
- Wendell Berry
Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.
- Toba Beta
If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,
it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.
- Toba Beta
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.
- Juliette Binoche
I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.
- Frank Black
She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can't get in and she doesn't come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.
- Malorie Blackman
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
- William Shakespeare
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
- William Shakespeare
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Samuel Johnson
God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days. (So why should you and I?.
- Samuel Johnson
You always dread the unfamiliar...We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
- Ray Bradbury
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
- Ray Bradbury
It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
- Eric Braeden
I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
- Jo Brand
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
- Van Wyck Brooks
The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.
- Lydia Brownback
I ain't got no right to judge someone.
- Frank Bruno
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
- Jean De La Bruyere
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- William Hazlitt
As the years go by those relationships are tested, and only then do you realize their true nature. Only after they've been tested through weddings, moves, funerals, divorces, births and other stages in life are you able to judge them. Until then, 'best friend', 'good guy', etc are only labels. In the end, it's interesting; often surprising to see the results.
- Benjamin J Carey
Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.
- Jonathan Lethem
I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.
- Roberto Cavalli
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
- William Ellery Channing
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
- Anton Chekhov
You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."
Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.
- Pamela Clare
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
- Arthur Rimbaud
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
- Louis L Amour
The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.
- Thomas Cleary
If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.
- George Clooney
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
- Simon Cowell
Those who judge others; first, need to know; how to judge self.
- Santosh Kalwar
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
- William Dampier
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been artists. You and I, if some future archaeologist finds our works miraculously preserved in some city dump, will be judged by the quality of our creations. Nothing else about us will matter.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
- Miles Davis
It's not our place to judge the guilt or innocence of the prisoners, Nurse Webster. The sooner you learn that the better. Any other approach just leads to conflicts of duty and undermines the smooth running of the institution. We are here to ensure that the prisoners are dealt with firmly and professionally. It's up to their lawyers to handle matters pertaining to their sentences.
- Rachel Dax
Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.
- Jeffery Deaver
Two at a time, Vera ate her peanut M&Ms. Except for the red ones. These, she alleged, were made from the guts of dead bugs. She put the red ones in a pile next to the salt shaker. "I'm not here to judge you, you know that. I love you no matter what happens. I just want to make sure you're making the right decision." Vera accidentally put a red candy in her mouth. She didn't notice and I didn't know whether to tell her.
- Tiffanie Debartolo
It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.
- Sheri L Dew
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
- Kate Dicamillo
The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.
- Norm Dicks
But to judge some people impartially we must renounce certain preconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary people about us.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that ha perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime. When he understands that, he will be able to judge...If you can take upon yourself the crime of the criminal your heart is judging, take it at once, suffer for him yourself, and let him go without reproach.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.
- W Paul Young
A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life.
- Frederick Douglass
When you judge another person you do not define them. You merely define yourself as someone who needs to judge.
- Wayne Dyer
Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!
- Bob Marley
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.
- Henry James
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
- Henry James
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
- David Elliott
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
- Tracey Emin
Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.
- Seth Grahame Smith
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
- Euripides
As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
- Richard P Feynman
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
- Sally Field
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
- Sally Field
There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.
- Emerson Fittipaldi
I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.
- Brendan Fraser
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
- Anna Freud
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
- Milton Friedman
...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.
- Karl Friedrich
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
- Kenichi Fukui
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
- Lady Gaga
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
- Leo Tolstoy
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
- Kahlil Gibran
To measure you by your smallest deed
is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures
is to cast blame upon the seasons
for their inconsistencies.
- Kahlil Gibran
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works.
- Herman Gorter
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!
- Herman Gorter
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
- Ulysses S Grant
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
- A C Grayling
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.
- Sylvia Plath
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
- Peter Hain
I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
- John Hawkes
I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems
- Jim Henson
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
- Aaron Hill
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- Eric Hoffer
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
- William Hogarth
Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.
- John Holt
As odd as it seemed, I learned that people may disappoint you, yes, but the one thing they also did was surprise you. Some of the best people were also some of the worst, there was no way to judge anyone really, you had to let them prove something.
- Holly Hood
To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
- Claudio Hummes
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
- Aldous Huxley
To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.
- Michael Imperioli
But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog is saying, "Who are you to judge me? You human beings who've had genocide, war against people of different creeds, colors, religions, and I stole a biscuit?! Is that a crime? People of the world!"
"Well, if you put it that way, I think you've got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.
- Eddie Izzard
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
- Helmut Jahn
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.
- Helmut Jahn
There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.
- Criss Jami
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
- Steve Jobs
Why do I believe in myself? I mean I look like Jarod Kintz, but does that mean I am? Who am I to judge who I am?
- Jarod Kintz
I call on those that call me son,
Grandson, or great-grandson,
On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,
To judge what I have done.
Have I, that put it into words,
Spoilt what old loins have sent?
- W B Yeats
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I 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?
- Mother Teresa
There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?
- Josh Kilmer Purcell
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
- Billie Jean King
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
- Harmony Korine
I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.
- Kristin Kreuk
[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.
- Paul Krugman
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
- Carl Rogers
I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.
- Wilfrid Laurier
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
- C S Lewis
I suppose we're not supposed to judge people.
- Rush Limbaugh
No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.
- Ashly Lorenzana
By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.
- Ashly Lorenzana
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
- Lawrence G Lovasik
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
- Lawrence G Lovasik
I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.
- Demi Lovato
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
- Gustav Mahler
Man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.
- Thomas Mann
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge.
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
- Brennan Manning
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
- W Somerset Maugham
We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.
- Sarah Mccoy
Every person is bound to make many mistakes; but he will make far fewer when his ability to judge has been properly trained.
- Frank Morton Mcmurry
It's so damn easy to judge. But as Paolo knows from his niece, no matter how much you want someone back in your life, sometimes it's the letting-them-back-in part that hurts the most
- Brad Meltzer
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"
Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.
- Walter M Miller Jr
Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them.
- Karen Marie Moning
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.
- Karen Marie Moning
Everywhere I looked, I could see only shades of gray. Black and white were nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we tried to judge things and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, were as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We could only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we could no longer see the light.
- Karen Marie Moning
I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.
- Maria Monk
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.
- Elizabeth Montagu
My aim in life is not to judge.
- Jeanne Moreau
I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.
- Giorgio Moroder
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.
- James K Morrow
If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
- Mohammed Morsi
I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them.
- Heidi Murkoff
You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried and failed. They judged by their own convictions--not even by the truth of the teachings of Isa. No one is above God's judgment. No one has the right to judge for him.
- Pola Muzyka
Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.
- Grace Napolitano
If you want to judge if a party is a Lebanese enough, let me say we take up arms and fight against the occupation of our land, is that Lebanese enough?
- Sayed Hassan Nasrallah
The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.
- Hugh Nibley
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
- Harold Nicolson
To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
- Henri Nouwen
She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge from her exterior that she was falling apart on the inside or that she didn't feel mature at all.
- Carol Oates
Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead?
Do you think I was being stupid? Naive?
Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me.
I thought I would live forever too.
- Lauren Oliver
Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.
- Osho
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.
- P D Ouspensky
It's not my style to judge anybody.
- Vanessa Paradis
I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that.
- Lin Pardey
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
- Bill Paxton
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
- James Payn
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.
If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.
- Nancy Pearl
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
- Itzhak Perlman
Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
- Anne Perry
It's up to history to judge.
- Pol Pot
Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.
- Bill Rancic
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
- Leopold Von Ranke
It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
- Caroline Rhea
I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.
- Mz Robinson
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
- Henry Rollins
One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.
- Roy Romer
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
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- Philip Roth
You must have learned by now, Agnes, that it's not possible to judge a life from the outside," she said. Her voice had an edge. "One inevitably gets it wrong.
- Claire Holden Rothman
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
- Marquis De Sade
There is no comparison between us. What Kao keeps in view is the spiritual mechanism. In making sure of the essential, he forgets the homely details; intent on the inward qualities, he loses sight of the external. He sees what he wants to see, and not what he does not want to see. He looks at the things he ought to look at, and neglects those that need not be looked at. So clever a judge of horses is Kao, that he has it in him to judge something better than horses.
- J D Salinger
My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.
- Rick Santorum
Age is a number to keep track of how many years you've been on the planet, not a tool to judge people by.
- David A Santos
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
- Charlie Sheen
At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.
- Indra Sinha
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
- Gerrit Smith
I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.
- Hope Solo
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
- Lysander Spooner
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
- Robert Sternberg
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.
- J R R Tolkien
I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
- Douglas Adams
Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?
- Mortimer Adler
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
- Paulo Coelho
She stared at Peter, and she realized that in that one moment, when she hadn't been thinking, she knew exactly what he'd felt as he moved through the school with his backpack and his guns. Every kid in this school played a role: jock, brain, beauty, freak. All Peter had done was what they all secretly dreamed of: be someone, even for just nineteen minutes, who nobody else was allowed to judge.
- Jodi Picoult
No, I chastised myself. I should be happy for him. I'd let him go. I'd turned down his request to be with me, so now I had no room to judge who he chose to be with. I needed to be happy for him, but I wasn't. Knowing he was laughing and smiling with someone else, that he was flirting and teasing someone who wasn't me ignited a feeling inside me that I'd fought so hard to bury. Suddenly, I was drawn to him like I hadn't been in years, and I couldn't ignore it.
- Monica Alexander
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?"
"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.
- Lloyd Alexander
We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.
- Jesse Jackson
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
- Eric Alterman
I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
- Tori Amos
When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
- Tori Amos
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
- Hermann Hesse
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
- Joan Of Arc
Here's something for you to think about," he said, his voice deliberately light. "At the moment, it would appear to an objective bystander that the two of us are in a far more incriminating situation than Heath and Raine."
Startled,she pulled away from him, her eyes wide.
"Which should remind us," Damon continued evenly,"not to judge by appearances.
- Lisa Kleypas
Is your queen what you are searching for in a woman, Froi?"
"I never imagined I was looking for something in a woman. But if I did, I'd have to judge her by the way I felt laying beside her before I went to sleep at night and how I felt in the morning waking up to her."
"Oh, too profound, my friend. Much too profound.
- Melina Marchetta
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
- Francis Bacon
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
- Saint Augustine
When you're too religious, you tend to point your finger to judge instead of extending your hand to help.
- Steve Maraboli
Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.
- Jane Austen
It is now expedient to give some description of Mrs. Allen, that the reader may be able to judge in what manner her actions will hereafter tend to promote the general distress of the work, and how she will, probably, contribute to reduce poor Catherine to all the desperate wretchedness of which a last volume is capable -- whether by her imprudence, vulgarity, or jealousy -- whether by intercepting her letters, ruining her character, or turning her out of doors.
- Jane Austen
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound like, or by the clothes they wear. Just because a house is nice and shiny out front doesn't mean it's not rotting on the inside. (Kyrian)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.
- Albert Camus
My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces.
- Albert Camus
Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate.
- Albert Camus
People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.
- Albert Camus
Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
- Franklin D Roosevelt
He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.
- Haruki Murakami
You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.
- Haruki Murakami
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.
- Haruki Murakami
Marxists have some way of analyzing the development of affairs which enables them to judge far in advance of scientific thinkers what the trend of social and economic development is to be.
- John Desmond Bernal
Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about.
- John Desmond Bernal
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by the ability to recite facts, but by the good order or harmoniousness of his or her surroundings. We must suspect that any statistical justification of ugliness and violence is a revelation of stupidity. (pg.192-193, People, Land, and Community)
- Wendell Berry
Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.
- Toba Beta
If you feel deserve to judge the arrogant,
it's a sign that you're so far of humbleness.
- Toba Beta
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after a while that means not trying to judge or analyze why I should do it. You have to follow this intuition thing, which is a mystery to me.
- Juliette Binoche
I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.
- Frank Black
She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can't get in and she doesn't come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.
- Malorie Blackman
For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play.
- William Shakespeare
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.
- William Shakespeare
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
- Samuel Johnson
God himself, sir, doesn't propose to judge man until the end of his days. (So why should you and I?.
- Samuel Johnson
You always dread the unfamiliar...We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
- Ray Bradbury
We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.
- Ray Bradbury
It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.
- Eric Braeden
I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
- Jo Brand
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
- Van Wyck Brooks
The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances.
- Lydia Brownback
I ain't got no right to judge someone.
- Frank Bruno
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
- Jean De La Bruyere
Why do You Send Fools To judge My Work?
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- William Hazlitt
As the years go by those relationships are tested, and only then do you realize their true nature. Only after they've been tested through weddings, moves, funerals, divorces, births and other stages in life are you able to judge them. Until then, 'best friend', 'good guy', etc are only labels. In the end, it's interesting; often surprising to see the results.
- Benjamin J Carey
Those promises we make to ourselves when we are younger, about how we mean to conduct our adult lives, can it be true we break every last one of them? All except for one, I suppose: the promise to judge ourselves by those standards, the promise to remember the child who would be so appalled by compromise, the child who would find jadedness wicked.
- Jonathan Lethem
I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.
- Roberto Cavalli
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
- William Ellery Channing
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
- Anton Chekhov
You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you."
Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me.
- Pamela Clare
Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
- Arthur Rimbaud
A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.
- Louis L Amour
The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.
- Thomas Cleary
If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.
- George Clooney
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.
- Simon Cowell
Those who judge others; first, need to know; how to judge self.
- Santosh Kalwar
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.
- William Dampier
This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Future civilizations - better civilizations than this one - are going to judge all men by the extent to which they've been artists. You and I, if some future archaeologist finds our works miraculously preserved in some city dump, will be judged by the quality of our creations. Nothing else about us will matter.
- Kurt Vonnegut
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
- Miles Davis
It's not our place to judge the guilt or innocence of the prisoners, Nurse Webster. The sooner you learn that the better. Any other approach just leads to conflicts of duty and undermines the smooth running of the institution. We are here to ensure that the prisoners are dealt with firmly and professionally. It's up to their lawyers to handle matters pertaining to their sentences.
- Rachel Dax
Hollow then produced Kobel's tax returns for the past three years.
When Ringling objected, Hollow said to Judge Rollins, "Your Honor, a man who files a tax return is of sound mind."
"That's debatable," said the ultraconservative judge, drawing laughter from the courtroom.
- Jeffery Deaver
Two at a time, Vera ate her peanut M&Ms. Except for the red ones. These, she alleged, were made from the guts of dead bugs. She put the red ones in a pile next to the salt shaker. "I'm not here to judge you, you know that. I love you no matter what happens. I just want to make sure you're making the right decision." Vera accidentally put a red candy in her mouth. She didn't notice and I didn't know whether to tell her.
- Tiffanie Debartolo
It is simply not for us to judge each other. The Lord has reserved that right for Himself, because only He knows our hearts and understands the varying circumstances and complexities of our lives.
- Sheri L Dew
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
- Kate Dicamillo
The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.
- Norm Dicks
But to judge some people impartially we must renounce certain preconceived opinions and our habitual attitude to the ordinary people about us.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognizes that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that ha perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime. When he understands that, he will be able to judge...If you can take upon yourself the crime of the criminal your heart is judging, take it at once, suffer for him yourself, and let him go without reproach.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.
- W Paul Young
A man must be disposed to judge of emancipation by other tests than whether it has increased the produce of sugar,and to hate slavery for other reasons than because it starves men and whips women,before he is ready to lay the first stone of his anti-slavery life.
- Frederick Douglass
When you judge another person you do not define them. You merely define yourself as someone who needs to judge.
- Wayne Dyer
Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!
- Bob Marley
The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.
- Henry James
I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
- Henry James
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
- David Elliott
What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.
- Tracey Emin
Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.
- Seth Grahame Smith
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
- Euripides
As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
- Richard P Feynman
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
- Sally Field
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
- Sally Field
There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.
- Emerson Fittipaldi
I'm starting to judge success by the time I have for myself, the time I spend with family and friends. My priorities aren't amending; they're shifting.
- Brendan Fraser
How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.
- Anna Freud
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
- Milton Friedman
...the only way to judge a philosophy is to examine the lives of those who live it.
- Karl Friedrich
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
- Kenichi Fukui
Celebrity life and media culture are probably the most overbearing pop-cultural conditions that we as young people have to deal with, because it forces us to judge ourselves.
- Lady Gaga
It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.
- Leo Tolstoy
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
- Kahlil Gibran
To measure you by your smallest deed
is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures
is to cast blame upon the seasons
for their inconsistencies.
- Kahlil Gibran
How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western Europe, at least as far as I am able to judge from your works.
- Herman Gorter
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!
- Herman Gorter
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
- Ulysses S Grant
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
- A C Grayling
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.
- Sylvia Plath
What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.
- Peter Hain
I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
- John Hawkes
I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems
- Jim Henson
Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
- Aaron Hill
It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
- Eric Hoffer
All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.
- William Hogarth
Only to the degree that people have what they need, that they are healthy and unafraid, that their lives are varied, interesting, meaningful, productive, joyous, can we begin to judge, or even guess, their nature. Few people, adults or children, now live such lives.
- John Holt
As odd as it seemed, I learned that people may disappoint you, yes, but the one thing they also did was surprise you. Some of the best people were also some of the worst, there was no way to judge anyone really, you had to let them prove something.
- Holly Hood
To judge a man means nothing other than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
A church of dialogue in the contemporary world... a church, taking on the mission of Jesus, which is in the world not to judge humanity, but to love it and to save it.
- Claudio Hummes
I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.
- Aldous Huxley
To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.
- Michael Imperioli
But with dogs, we do have "bad dog." Bad dog exists. "Bad dog! Bad dog! Stole a biscuit, bad dog!" The dog is saying, "Who are you to judge me? You human beings who've had genocide, war against people of different creeds, colors, religions, and I stole a biscuit?! Is that a crime? People of the world!"
"Well, if you put it that way, I think you've got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.
- Eddie Izzard
A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.
- Helmut Jahn
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.
- Helmut Jahn
There is such a thing as righteous judgment, but it seems that lately the word 'judgment' has become a curse word, period. The issue isn't whether or not we're insightful enough to avoid being judgmental, but whether or not we're secure enough to accept being judged. It is inevitable for every conscious human being to judge. It may spring from insight and experience and sincerity, and in such cases, it is quite beneficial on the receiving end.
- Criss Jami
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
- Steve Jobs
Why do I believe in myself? I mean I look like Jarod Kintz, but does that mean I am? Who am I to judge who I am?
- Jarod Kintz
I call on those that call me son,
Grandson, or great-grandson,
On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,
To judge what I have done.
Have I, that put it into words,
Spoilt what old loins have sent?
- W B Yeats
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I 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?
- Mother Teresa
There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?
- Josh Kilmer Purcell
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
- Billie Jean King
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
- Harmony Korine
I wasn't raised with a specific religion. I wasn't raised to judge people in any way.
- Kristin Kreuk
[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their previous enthusiasm? Will Republicans stop their vicious attacks because Obama is lashing out to his left? It was pure self-indulgence; even if he feels aggrieved, he has to judge his words by their usefulness, not by his desire to vent. This isn't about him.
- Paul Krugman
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
- Carl Rogers
I claim for Canada this, that in future Canada shall be at liberty to act or not act, to interfere or not interfere, to do just as she pleases, and that she shall reserve to herself the right to judge whether or not there is cause for her to act.
- Wilfrid Laurier
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.
- Matthew Gregory Lewis
That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.
- C S Lewis
I suppose we're not supposed to judge people.
- Rush Limbaugh
No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.
- Ashly Lorenzana
By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.
- Ashly Lorenzana
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
- Lawrence G Lovasik
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
- Lawrence G Lovasik
I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.
- Demi Lovato
To judge a composer's work, one must consider it as a whole.
- Gustav Mahler
Man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.
- Thomas Mann
None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge.
Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
- Brennan Manning
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
- W Somerset Maugham
We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls.
- Sarah Mccoy
Every person is bound to make many mistakes; but he will make far fewer when his ability to judge has been properly trained.
- Frank Morton Mcmurry
It's so damn easy to judge. But as Paolo knows from his niece, no matter how much you want someone back in your life, sometimes it's the letting-them-back-in part that hurts the most
- Brad Meltzer
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"
Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.
- Walter M Miller Jr
Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them.
- Karen Marie Moning
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.
- Karen Marie Moning
Everywhere I looked, I could see only shades of gray. Black and white were nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we tried to judge things and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, were as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We could only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we could no longer see the light.
- Karen Marie Moning
I have, I think, afforded every opportunity that could be reasonably expected, to judge of my credibility.
- Maria Monk
To judge therefore of Shakespeare by Aristotle's rule is like trying a man by the Laws of one Country who acted under those of another.
- Elizabeth Montagu
My aim in life is not to judge.
- Jeanne Moreau
I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.
- Giorgio Moroder
The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.
- James K Morrow
If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment.
- Mohammed Morsi
I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them.
- Heidi Murkoff
You see, Yousef, you can't force someone in their hearts to believe the way you do. They all tried and failed. They judged by their own convictions--not even by the truth of the teachings of Isa. No one is above God's judgment. No one has the right to judge for him.
- Pola Muzyka
Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.
- Grace Napolitano
If you want to judge if a party is a Lebanese enough, let me say we take up arms and fight against the occupation of our land, is that Lebanese enough?
- Sayed Hassan Nasrallah
The very helplessness of the public which makes it necessary for them to consult the experts also makes it impossible for them to judge how expert they are.
- Hugh Nibley
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
- Harold Nicolson
To the degree that we embrace the truth that our identity is not rooted in our success, power, or popularity, but in God's infinite love, to that degree can we let go of our need to judge.
- Henri Nouwen
She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge from her exterior that she was falling apart on the inside or that she didn't feel mature at all.
- Carol Oates
Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long to even /think/ the word -- death? Dying? Dead?
Do you think I was being stupid? Naive?
Try not to judge. Remember that we're the same, you and me.
I thought I would live forever too.
- Lauren Oliver
Always remember to judge everything by your inner feeling of bliss.
- Osho
Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.
- P D Ouspensky
It's not my style to judge anybody.
- Vanessa Paradis
I grew to judge every purchase by how many bronze screws I could buy for the boat if I didn't spend on this or made do without that.
- Lin Pardey
I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.
- Bill Paxton
How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
- James Payn
If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up.
If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.
- Nancy Pearl
For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.
- Itzhak Perlman
Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.
- Anne Perry
It's up to history to judge.
- Pol Pot
Whether you want to admit it or not, people begin to judge you the minute you walk in the door.
- Bill Rancic
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
- Leopold Von Ranke
It's so easy to judge everybody and for some reason extra weight is the one thing everything feels OK to joke about.
- Caroline Rhea
I've discovered that in life, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are; it's human nature to be judged and to judge others by the blood they carry and the company they keep.
- Mz Robinson
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
- Henry Rollins
One of the things that we're all struggling with is how to judge the quality of the value-added experience of an educational course or year. I don't think it's impossible to do that, but it's difficult.
- Roy Romer
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10
- Philip Roth
You must have learned by now, Agnes, that it's not possible to judge a life from the outside," she said. Her voice had an edge. "One inevitably gets it wrong.
- Claire Holden Rothman
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
- Marquis De Sade
There is no comparison between us. What Kao keeps in view is the spiritual mechanism. In making sure of the essential, he forgets the homely details; intent on the inward qualities, he loses sight of the external. He sees what he wants to see, and not what he does not want to see. He looks at the things he ought to look at, and neglects those that need not be looked at. So clever a judge of horses is Kao, that he has it in him to judge something better than horses.
- J D Salinger
My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge.
- Rick Santorum
Age is a number to keep track of how many years you've been on the planet, not a tool to judge people by.
- David A Santos
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
- Charlie Sheen
At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.
- Indra Sinha
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
- Gerrit Smith
I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.
- Hope Solo
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
- Lysander Spooner
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
- Edmund Clarence Stedman
The three parts of the theory are analytical ability, the ability to analyze things to judge, to criticize. Creative, the ability to create, to invent and discover and practical, the ability to apply and use what you know.
- Robert Sternberg
The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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