A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

I’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Error is always more busy than truth.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Belief creates the actual fact.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

If you would judge, understand.

Don’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

If you judge, investigate.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.