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

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.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

The 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

There 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.

If 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.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

I’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?

People 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.

To 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.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

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

A 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.

Error is always more busy than truth.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

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.

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

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

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

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

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

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

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

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.

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

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

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

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

Consult 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.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

If 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.

Nine 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.