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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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.

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.

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

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Belief creates the actual fact.

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

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

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

Although 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.

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

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.

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

I 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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Nothing 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.

When 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.

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.

It’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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

If you judge, investigate.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

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 you would judge, understand.

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