560 Quotes About Judgment

For sin bust be punished either by the penitent sinner or by God, his judge; and God, who has promised pardon to the penitent sinner, has nowhere promised to one who delays his conversion a morrow to do penance in.

In a few seconds, we judge another person and think we know them. When, the person we’ve lived with the longest, we still don’t know very well—ourselves.

Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened.

Independence is important to intelligent decision making for two reasons. First, it keeps the mistakes that people make from becoming correlated. Errors in individual judgment won’t wreck the group’s collective judgment as long as those errors aren’t systematically pointing in the same direction. One of the quickest ways to make people’s judgments systematically biased is to make them dependent on each other for information.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.

Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.

Om te oordelen over grote en verheven zaken, moet je zelf op dat niveau staan, anders projecteer je er je eigen gebreken op. In het water lijkt een rechte roeispaan krom. Het is niet alleen van belang of je een ding ziet, maar vooral hoe je het ziet.

Judgement is often no more than a confession of ignorance.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?The sentence too weak,The sentence too strong.The penance too quick,The penance too long.Who judges the judge who judges wrong?