Judgment

“On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,And from your judgment must expect my fate.”

“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.”

“Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.”

“Cruel and cold is the judgment of man,Be judged by the motive that lieth below.”

“To pass judgment hurriedly he’s called a judge.”

“The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.”

“Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry,And marvel, out in the cold.”

“My friend, judge not me,Mercy I askt, mercy I found.”

“In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.”

“Woe to him, * * * who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.”

“Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.”

“Make every private Sentinel, every Musquetier, both Judge, Jury, and Executioner.”

“Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Common parlance alludes to this weakness in the frequently heard phrase: PEOPLE DO NOT THINK.”

“We judge others according to results; how else?—not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.”

“People think that they have no right to judge a fact — all they have to do is to accept it. Thus from the moment that technics, the State, or production, are facts, we must worship them as facts, and we must try to adapt ourselves to them. This is the very heart of modern religion, the religion of the established fact, the religion on which depend the lesser religions of the dollar, race, or the proletariat.”

“A justice with grave justices shall sit;He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.”

“In other men we faults can spy,To our own stronger errors blind.”

“So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more.”

“I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”

“Art thou a magistrate? then be severe;If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.”

“Do not judge your fellow man until you have come into his situation.”

“If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.”

“Nature has but one judgment on wrong conduct—if you can call that a judgment which seemingly has no reference to conduct as such—the judgment of death.”

“Woe to those who make unjust laws,Where will you leave your riches?”

“Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.”

“For the one who does not practice mercy will have his judgment without mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”

“The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them.”

“So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,Lie still without a fee.”

“Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, — judgement, to estimate things at their true value.”

“Give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil.”

“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view\xadpoint of the novel’s wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.”

“Half as sober as a judge.”

“If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.”

“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.”

“My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannæ, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllæ, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.”

“I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.”

“When thou attended gloriously from heaven,Thy dread tribunal.”

“There written allEre Mercy weeps them out again.”

“In judging ourselves, we cannot be too severe; in judging others, we cannot be too candid. We should judge ourselves by our motives, but others by their actions.”

“Look, as sentient meat, however illusory our identities are, we craft those identities by making value judgments: everybody judges, all the time. Now, you got a problem with that... You're livin' wrong.”

“The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”

“You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.”

“Since twelve honest men have decided the cause,And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.”

“Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.”

“For I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.”

“We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.”

“He that of greatest works is finisherWhen judges have been babes.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.”

“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.”

“What we oft do best,For our best act.”

“Therefore I say again,At all a friend to truth.”

“Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge,That no king can corrupt.”

“O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,And men have lost their reason!”

“The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,Guiltier than him they try.”

“How would you be,But judge you as you are?”

“Thieves for their robbery have authorityWhen judges steal themselves.”

“He who the sword of heaven will bearKills for faults of his own liking!”

“To offend, and judge, are distinct officesAnd of opposed natures.”

“I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?”

“It doth appear you are a worthy judge;Hath been most sound.”

“I charge you by the law,Proceed to judgment.”

“The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.”

“What is my offence?Unto the frowning judge?”

“Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.”

“The Holy Spirit would lead us to think much upon our own sins. It is a dangerous thing for us to dwell upon the imperfections of others.”

“Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.”

“Though our worksAt least is ours, to make them righteous.”

“But as when an authentic watch is shown,So in our very judgments.”

“O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments [are] and past tracing out his ways [are]! For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?””

“Where blind and naked IgnoranceOn all things all day long.”

“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. At any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.”