Top 100 A Judgement Quotes
#1. It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one.
Immanuel Kant
#2. There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
Catherine McAuley
#3. To listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgement, without opinions.
Hermann Hesse
#4. In an honest effort to gain understanding, asking questions do not, necessarily, imply a conclusion has been determined. They can be used to avoid making the wrong judgement. If building trust is the ultimate goal - there is no need to be defensive, or feel threatened by any inquiry.
T.F. Hodge
#5. He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!
David Sedaris
#6. No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.
Katherine Rundell
#7. No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.
Ayn Rand
#8. A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.
Michel De Montaigne
#9. Even the greatest idea can become meaningless in the rush to judgement. To gauge an idea as feasible we must cut our ties to the status quo and find the balance between constructive criticism and judgment. Within that balance we will uncover crucial input for making our ideas a reality.
Shigeo Shingo
#10. The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.
Merrick Garland
#11. A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.
Stephen Harper
#12. As photojournalists, we supply information to a world that is overwhelmed with preoccupations and full of people who need the company of images ... We pass judgement on what we see, and this involves an enormous responsibility.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#13. Being a running back helped me tremendously. It taught me judgement in the defense and how to judge the football.
Tommy McDonald
#14. The environment and support is one of a kind! A zero judgement, safe place to discuss and achieve goals!
Melissa M
#15. Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a collection of knick-knacks and odds and ends. Here a face. There a sunset.
Will Ferguson
#16. As a man advances in life he gets what is better than admiration -judgement to estimate things at their own value.
Samuel Johnson
#17. Questions after a fatal fall of a giant are like lighting a fire by a breeze laden sea.
Darmie Orem
#18. Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of any one. For no one can judge a criminal, until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is more than all men to blame for that crime.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. (3) 'IS IT A SYSTEM ... ?' ... Ultimately, I suspect, this is a question about which the reader should form his own judgement by study of the original text.
Raymond Keene
#20. Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#21. Your sense of judgement could use a dash of common sense.
Susan Ee
#22. I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but ... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.
Emmett Shear
#23. All sense, all judgement, overthrown by a h-dropping, glottal-stopping glitter pirate, and I didn't have to care.
Alexis Hall
#24. A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality.
James Luther Adams
#25. It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. To love somebody is not just a strong feeling - it's a decision, it's a judgement, it's a promise.
Bell Hooks
#29. Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
Grantland Rice
#30. It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.
Petrus Borel
#31. Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
David W. Earle
#32. My four golden principles are more important now than ever: take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.
Robert Harris
#33. A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.
Jerome Lawrence
#34. So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a human being?"
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#35. A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
Martin Feldstein
#36. She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behaviour, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together?
Peter Carey
#37. Because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied,
Gregory David Roberts
#38. Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.
Alfred North Whitehead
#39. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.
Miguel Ruiz
#40. There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.
Eckhart Tolle
#41. Alma had told him once that to smell burning was a symptom schizophrenics suffered from, adding "but then they probably set fire to things quite often, so it's bound to be a tricky judgement call.
Alan Moore
#42. Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.
John Manning
#43. I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they are taking to get there.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#44. For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.
Jorge Luis Borges
#45. Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
Harper Lee
#46. An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.
Sivananda Saraswati
#47. Judgement requires, then, the joint operation of sensibility and understanding. A mind without concepts would have no capacity to think; equally, a mind armed with concepts, but with no sensory data to which they could be applied, would have nothing to think about.
Roger Scruton
#48. A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. You should visit before you pass judgement on a place.
Tanith Lee
#50. Being able to experience and live the differences with sound judgement offers a chance to opt for what is right for one.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#51. It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.
Marcus Aurelius
#53. The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.
Wayne Dyer
#55. Do you think I'm never wrong? You must trust your own judgement. Believe me, Leafpaw, one day you will make a wonderful medicine cat
perhaps even as good as Spottedleaf.
Erin Hunter
#56. I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.
Lincoln Hall
#57. I'd become one of those mistakes you sometimes find in an office, a not unpleasant but mostly unproductive presence bobbing along on the energy tides of others, a walking reminder of somebody's error in judgement.
Sam Lipsyte
#58. people who are incompetent suffer a dual burden: not only are they incompetent, but they may also be too incompetent to assay their own incompetence, because the skills which underlie an ability to make a correct judgement are the same as the skills required to recognise a correct judgement.
Ben Goldacre
#59. Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo.
Joseph Brodsky
#60. Sluts don't have a choice, darling. And you've forfeited yours.
Sara Craven
#61. Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.
George Steiner
#62. The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.
Storm Constantine
#63. Did he judge on appearance alone? would he judge me? "Goth" doesn't cut it when it comes to a word that describes me. I'm complex. Complicated. No one gets me, and I like it that way.
Kelly McClymer
#64. Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless ... and that's on a good day.
Jeaniene Frost
#65. 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
#66. A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A.R. Ammons
#67. If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
Robert A. Heinlein
#68. Folks can't seem to realize that it isn't a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again.
Louis L'Amour
#69. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.
Marya Hornbacher
#70. You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure. The rich have get their channels in the bedrooms of the poor. And there's a mighty Judgement coming but I may be wrong ...
Leonard Cohen
#71. A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.
Johnny Rich
#72. Friends, are you a man according to Gods definition? Have you ever placed yourself under God's microscopic eyes? Have you examined yourself according to his standards of judgment? Does he call you a man
Sunday Adelaja
#73. It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Michael Jackson
#74. Ruling or judging others is considered to be a sentiment that resonates in very low frequencies.
Stephen Richards
#75. The decision to trigger Article 50 is in the hands of the next prime minister. If that is me, I will make a judgement as to when is right for Britain, and I won't be hurried or hassled by anyone into pressing that button or triggering that article until I believe it is right for this country.
Michael Gove
#76. Oh Lord, help me change my ways, Show a litlle mercy on judgement day, It aint me I was raised this way, Never let em' play me for a busta, Makin' hell for a huslter.
Tupac Shakur
#77. I think it's important to see that, as an audience member, because a lot of times you pass judgement on people, right off the bat, depending on whatever they're involved in or the people they surround themselves with, or something like that.
Megalyn Echikunwoke
#78. Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.
Edward De Bono
#79. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
#80. Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?
Kamand Kojouri
#81. It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
Oscar Wilde
#82. Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Charlotte Bronte
#83. Life is a manifestation of the fundamental laws of physics, and in its highest form, life manifests the fundamental laws of physics as a human organism endowed with a capacity for moral judgement.
Joseph B.H. McMillan
#84. Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
Mark Twain
#85. Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.
Stephen Jay Gould
#86. Do you Believe? Do you Fade like a Dream?
Let me hear you BREATHE
Let me watch as you sleep
The Sparrow's Eyes ... Promises shift into judgments
I cannot deny that you were designed for my punishments
Slipknot
#87. There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.
Joseph Addison
#88. Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs ... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
Robbie Williams
#90. Surely when a man is painting a picture he ought not refuse to hear any man's opinion ... Since men are able to form a true judgement as to the works of nature, how much more does it behoove us to admit that they are able to judge our faults.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#91. The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest.
John F. Kennedy
#92. Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society don't think straight. They are perverted in their thoughts
Sunday Adelaja
#94. If people could see my soul without judgement. See my image as a mirror, viewing my uniqueness as the gift it truly is.
Tina J. Richardson
#95. According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.
Euripides
#96. The other important thing to understand is that as humans we see only a segment of reality in the greater cosmic scheme of things, so we are really never in a position to judge anyone or anything.
Karen Kingston
#97. I was quite shocked at the tone I took and the judgements I had of the relationship that she embarked on, you know, sex with a minor. But it's the stuff of great drama [in Notes On A Scandal].
Cate Blanchett
#98. When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#99. The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.
Janet Frame
#100. I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They fed into each other, so it was best to quell such thoughts before they gathered strength.
Kjerstin Gruys
