1,461 Quotes About Judging


  • Author Jane Austen
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    It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.

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  • Author Jane Addams
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    We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.

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  • Author Jeff Abbott
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    Criminals are dumb as stumps. If they were smart they could go be investment bankers. Or judges.

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  • Author Jeffrey Archer
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    At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.

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  • Author Joan of Arc
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    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.

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  • Author John Adams
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    What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money; and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.

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  • Author John Adams
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    Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules contrived to govern them, without considering with like Attention, all the Passions, Appetites, Affections in Nature from which they flow. An intimate Knowledge therefore of the intellectual and moral World is the sole foundation on which a stable structure of Knowledge can be erected.

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  • Author Josef Albers
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    Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge...

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