Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonIf you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas SowellConsult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.
Wayne DyerWe have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
Jimmy CarterThe intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.
Brene BrownWe judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Brene BrownNothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich NietzscheI’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
Joel OsteenWhat is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Benjamin DisraeliUndeserved 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.
Friedrich NietzscheThe 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.
Arthur SchopenhauerGood judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Will RogersThe 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.
Richard P. FeynmanDon’t wait for the last judgment – it takes place every day.
Albert CamusMyth 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.
J. R. R. TolkienTruth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis BaconI read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
Terry PratchettBelief creates the actual fact.
William JamesIf you would judge, understand.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaPeople 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.
RihannaI’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?
J. K. RowlingYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund BurkeWell, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?
Richard M. NixonIf I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.
Narendra ModiTo free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
Arthur SchopenhauerFor all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas CarlyleRegarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.
Friedrich NietzscheAlthough the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Friedrich NietzscheIf 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.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac AsimovThe world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas JeffersonMan approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.
Aldous HuxleyWhen you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne DyerIt’s easy to become very self-critical when you’re an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
Keanu ReevesIronically, 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.
Brene BrownIf a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SocratesThe roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God’s loving-kindness.
Charles SpurgeonIt is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Erma BombeckYou can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Audrey HepburnNine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. MenckenThe artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert CamusThere are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.
Charles SpurgeonI ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
Franklin D. RooseveltI 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.
Paulo CoelhoPeople really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.
Alice WalkerExtremely 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.
Joyce MeyerExperts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin PowellI’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
Kamala HarrisOne’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar WildeI 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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Thomas JeffersonAn error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma GandhiWe 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.
Michelle ObamaNecessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.
Friedrich NietzscheIt 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.
David BowieI’m not the judge. You know, God didn’t tell me to go around judging everybody.
Joel OsteenBetter the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John RuskinA true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
Ludwig van BeethovenTo the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
James Madison