judgement Quotes

“Judging is, as it were, balancing an account, and determining on which side the odds lie.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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“It is not my place to judge another person's life. Only for myself, for myself alone, I must decide, I must chose, I must refuse.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

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“Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“The dead should be judged as we judge criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of a doubt.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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“One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”

― Jane Austen, Emma

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“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them; and in the actions of all men, and especially of princes,...”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

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“the verdict does not come suddenly, proceedings continue until a verdict is reached gradually.”

― Franz Kafka, The Trial

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“And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

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“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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