Class Quote by David Dellinger

“Now each man judges well the things he knows, and of these he is a good judge. And so the man who has been…

— Aristotle

Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff…

— George Bernard Shaw

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you…

— David Dudley Field II

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

— Anonymous

What I've learned over the years... judges are conscientious... not like lawyers, who give opinions.

— Richard Cordray

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

— John Locke

nobody is a good judge in his own cause!

— Therese of Lisieux

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

— Henry David Thoreau

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth…

— Jonathan Swift

“Judge not,' it has been said, but being a juryman can be a pleasant occupation when one is not weighing up human actions and…

— Claudio Magris

The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances…

— Learned Hand

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

— Oscar Wilde