Judgement Quotes

"To trust one untested, and to doubt one tested and trusted – both bring endless sorrow."

Thiruvalluvar

"Weigh a person's virtues and faults, and judge them by whichever is greater."

Thiruvalluvar

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

Voltaire

“There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested.”

“If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

“The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.”

“You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.”

“Judge not, that ye be not judged.”

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

“None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.”

“If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.”

“Dinocrates, I appreciate your design as excellent in composition, and I am delighted with it, but I apprehend that anybody who should found a city in that spot would be censured for bad judgement.”

“Not the failures of others, nor their sins of commission or omission, but his own misdeeds and negligences should a sage take notice of.”

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”

J. R. R. Tolkien

“There is no passion that so shakes the clarity of our judgment as anger.”

Michel de Montaigne

“The great majority of us cannot listen; we find ourselves compelled to evaluate, because listening is too dangerous.”

Carl Rogers

“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.”

Francis Bacon