A Daniel come to judgment. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
My salad days;
When I was green in judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]
Wise judges are we of each other! [ Richelieu ]
Taste is the very maker of judgment. [ Leigh Hunt ]
He hurts the good who spares the bad. [ Syrus ]
For every event is a judgment of God. [ Schiller ]
Extreme justice is extreme injustice. [ Cicero ]
Wit and judgment often are at strife. [ Pope ]
Make not thyself the judge of any man. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A retentive memory and little judgment. [ French Proverb ]
No man should be judge in his own case. [ Law Maxim ]
Of judgment every one has some to sell. [ Italian Proverb ]
Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment. [ Shenstone ]
The more one judges, the less one loves. [ Balzac ]
Taste is the microscope of the judgment. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
Under your good correction, I have seen.
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented over his doom. [ William Shakespeare ]
The world's judgment is unswayed by fear. [ St. Augustine ]
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. [ William Shakespeare ]
Judgment is forced upon us by experience. [ Johnson ]
When we love, it is the heart that judges. [ Joubert ]
Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. [ William Shakespeare ]
Many books,
Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not
A spirit and judgment equal or superior,
Uncertain and unsettled still remains -
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. [ Milton ]
Positiveness is an evidence of poor judgment. [ Proverb ]
Of all the causes that conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind.
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. [ Pope ]
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores,
Of will and judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]
An ill agreement is better than a good judgment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. [ Sir Roger l'Estrange ]
Who upon earth could live were all judged justly? [ Byron ]
Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of judgment. [ Rousseau ]
The imagination gallops, the judgment merely walks. [ French ]
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. [ Burke ]
Wit without judgment is a weary thing to the company. [ Proverb ]
There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]
Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. [ Swift ]
The history of the world is the judgment of the world. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
You may have a good memory but have a confounded judgment. [ Proverb ]
He hath a good judgment that relies not wholly on his own. [ Proverb ]
He that passes a judgment as he runs overtakes repentance. [ Proverb ]
The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment [ Cicero ]
Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. [ La Roche ]
Invention is not so much the result of labor as of judgment. [ Roscommon ]
Remember, when the judgment Is weak the prejudice is strong. [ Kane O'Hara ]
A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment. [ La Roche ]
We make others judgment our own by frequenting their society. [ Thomas Fuller ]
All complain of want of memory, but none of want of judgment. [ Proverb ]
Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable. [ W. Winter ]
Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment hoodwinked. [ Cowper ]
We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain. [ Owen Meredith ]
One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides. [ Goethe ]
Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously. [ Bacon ]
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. [ Saadi ]
The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries. [ La Bruyère ]
Every one complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Reason is the torch of friendship, judgment its guide, tenderness its aliment. [ De Bonald ]
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature. [ Cicero ]
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. [ Montaigne ]
Be kind to my remains; and O defend Against your judgment, your departed friend. [ Dryden ]
Eyes and ears, two trade pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will and Judgment. [ William Shakespeare ]
Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. [ Bible ]
Silence often expresses more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. [ Grattan ]
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. [ Hippocrates ]
It is a sad thing when men have neither wit to speak well nor judgment to hold their tongues. [ La Bruyere ]
Clear-sighted reason, wisdom's judgment leads; and sense, her vassal, in her footsteps treads. [ Sir J. Denham ]
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgment sound. [ Plautus ]
Romances, in general, are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. [ Richardson ]
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. [ Warburton ]
Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity. [ Mason ]
Uprightness, judgment, and sympathy with others will profit thee at every time and in every place. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment. [ Pliny ]
It is a great misfortune not to have enough wit to speak well, or not enough judgment to keep silent. [ La Bruyere ]
If a man can play the true logician, and have judgment as well as invention, he may do great matters. [ Lord Bacon ]
It is not the defects but the beauties which should form our criterion of judgment in all matters of art. [ Chapin ]
How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons. [ Metastasio ]
In matters of fact, they say there is some credit to be given to the testimony of men, but not in matters of judgment. [ Hooker ]
A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
What is a philosopher? One who opposes nature to law, reason to usage, conscience to opinion, and his judgment to error. [ Chamfort ]
When Nature fills the sails, the vessel goes smoothly on; and when judgment is the pilot, the insurance need not be high. [ Sir T. Browne ]
The mob have neither judgment nor principle, - ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. [ Tacitus ]
He who has no taste for order will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. [ Lavater ]
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
An enduring fame is one stamped by the judgment of the future, - that future which dispels illusions, and smashes idols into dust. [ Gladstone ]
In our judgment of human transactions the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us. [ Whately ]
Mathematics does not exercise the judgment, and if too exclusively pursued, may leave the student very ill qualified for moral reasoning. [ R. Whately ]
Associate with men of judgment, for judgment is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company. [ Thomas Fuller ]
Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]
It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well. [ Sydney Dobell ]
Blessed are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled that they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger to sound what stop she please. [ William Shakespeare ]
Can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment. [ Rabelais ]
In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform, our judgment concerning the future amounts to moral certainty. [ Beattie ]
There is something on earth greater than arbitrary power. The thunder, the lightning, and the earthquake are terrific, but the judgment of the people is more. [ Daniel Webster ]
The term intellect
includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. [ William Fleming ]
We may hold it slavish to dress according to the judgment of fools and the caprice of coxcombs; but are we not ourselves both when we are singular in our attire? [ Chatfield ]
It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. [ Phaedr ]
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]
Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert: that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates. [ Johnson ]
Light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever in his affections and customs. [ Bacon ]
Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read. [ Montaigne ]
I have tormented the present with the preoccupations of the future; I have put my judgment in the place of Providence, and the happy child has been transformed into a care-worn man! [ E. Souvestre ]
I could never divide myself from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgment for not agreeing in that from which within a few days I might dissent myself. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment. [ Lowell ]
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. [ South ]
Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]
The courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; and when it is only a kind of instinct in the soul, it breaks out on all occasions, without judgment or discretion. [ Addison ]
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered. Or, as the Chinese better say, The glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall.
[ Bovee ]
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]
Commonsense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of commonsense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. [ Huxley ]
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment: it imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all. [ Whipple ]
There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small. [ Goethe ]
Deliberate long before thou consecrate a friend; and when thy impartial judgment concludes him worthy of thy bosom, receive him joyfully, and entertain him wisely; impart thy secrets boldly, and mingle thy thoughts with his; he is thy very self; and use him so; if thou firmly think him faithful, thou makest him so. [ F. Quarles ]
The word necessary
is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. [ Lord Halifax ]
It is wonderful indeed to consider how many objects the eye is fitted to take in at once, and successively in an instant, and at the same time to make a judgment of their position, figure, and color. It watches against our dangers, guides our steps, and lets in all the visible objects, whose beauty and variety instruct and delight. [ Steele ]
Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones. [ Shenstone ]
Metaphysicians have been learning their lessons for the last four thousand years, and it is high time that they should now begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant? [ Colton ]
Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [ William Shakespeare ]
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable. [ Terence ]
Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]