Judging Quotes · Page 73

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

— Michel de Montaigne

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to…

— Michel de Montaigne

Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All…

— Walt Whitman

We are humanity, Kant says. Humanity needs us because we are it. Kant believes in duty and considers remaining alive a primary…

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll…

— Mehmet Oz

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

— Hilary Mantel

If nobody ever offers an opinion or takes the slightest interest in one's production, one loses not only all pleasure in them,…

— Fanny Mendelssohn

When I go to one of those singles dating parties I believe myself to be a bowl of fruit. When I talk…

— Amanda Holden

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am.…

— Steve Perry

At first, I felt bad judging an entire state by one county political official, but then I found out Morrison had also…

— Gail Collins

The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics andtrade,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that…

— Oscar Wilde

Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

... the more have been your trials, look for a more perfect reward from your just Judge. Do not take your present…

— Saint Basil

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

— Gregory David Roberts

Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

— Matthew Henry

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you…

— Lafcadio Hearn

As I grow older, what I find interesting is that I get experience with pain, different types of pain, and I start…

— Rachael Yamagata

At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I accept the proposition that... to judge is an exercise of power and because ... there is no objective stance but only…

— Sonia Sotomayor

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

— Vance Havner

None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded…

— Samuel Johnson

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness…

— Eric Hoffer

I'm never trying to make a statement about morality ever. If there's a statement to be made, it's "People are complicated. They…

— Liz W. Garcia

The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge…

— Albert Einstein