Judgement Quotes

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Common sense is not so common.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least.

... common sense is very rare.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

It's hard to expose your personal life publicly, and everyone has an opinion.

No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea.

You're going to have haters no matter what you do.

I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the crime which brought these wretched murderers to it faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators. I came upon the scene at midnight…As the night went on, screeching and laughing, and yelling in strong chorus of parodies on Negro melodies, with substitutions of “Mrs Manning” for “Susannah” and the like were added to these. When the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians, and vagabonds of every kind, flocked on the ground, with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour…When the sun rose brightly, it gilded thousands upon thousands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth or callousness that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore. When these two miserable creatures, who attracted all this ghastly sight about them, were turned quivering into the air there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgement, than if the name of Christ had never been heard in this world