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“It's so much easier to pass judgment on a man than on an idea.” Ayn Rand, “The Fountainhead” - 1943

“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “The Social Contract” - 1762

“Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 2” - 1594

“Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“However, our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes.” Thomas Hardy, “Tess of the d'Urbervilles” - 1891

“Don't mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution, than for counsel; and fitter for new projects, than for settled business.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” Jane Austen, “Emma” - 1815

“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.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“If everybody minded their own business . . . the world would go round a deal faster than it does.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.” Albert Camus, “The Fall” - 1956

“Thieves for their robbery have authority when judges steal themselves.” William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” - 1623

“There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.” William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” - 1623

“It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“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” - 1912

“Judging is, as it were, balancing an account, and determining on which side the odds lie.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“The Common Sense, is that which judges of things offered to it by the other senses.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of...” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and...” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding our own, and be prevented from thinking that everything contrary to our customs is ridiculous and irrational, a...” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“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” - 1791

“Deficiency in judgement is properly that which is called stupidity; and for such a failing we know no remedy.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“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” - 1776

“Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“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” - 1922

“In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds; let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 1961

“Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?” Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” - 1651

“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” - 1532

“Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only...” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends” Joseph Conrad, “Lord Jim” - 1900

“That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it.” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don’t knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know...” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

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