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Judgment generally refers to the considered evaluation of evidence in the formation of making a decision. It has three distinctive uses, one in general psychology, another in law, and another in religion.

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  • Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverend than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
  • Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, — judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
    • Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), p. 485.
  • I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
  • If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.
    • Josiah Gilbert Holland, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 357.
  • We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
  • When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
    Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
    Thy summoning archangels to proclaim
    Thy dread tribunal.
  • There written all
    Black as the damning drops that fall
    From the denouncing Angel's pen,
    Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
    • Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Paradise and the Peri, Stanza 28.
  • The hungry judges soon the sentence sign,
    And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
  • You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.
  • He that of greatest works is finisher
    Oft does them by the weakest minister:
    So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown,
    When judges have been babes.
  • I see men's judgments are
    A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward
    Do draw the inward quality after them,
    To suffer all alike.
  • Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
    Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
  • What we oft do best,
    By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is
    Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as oft,
    Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up
    For our best act.
  • Therefore I say again,
    I utterly abhor, yea from my soul
    Refuse you for my judge; whom, yet once more,
    I hold my most malicious foe, and think not
    At all a friend to truth.
  • The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
    May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
    Guiltier than him they try.
  • He who the sword of heaven will bear
    Should be as holy as severe;
    Pattern in himself to know,
    Grace to stand, and virtue go;
    More nor less to others paying
    Than by self-offenses weighing.
    Shame to him, whose cruel striking
    Kills for faults of his own liking!
  • What is my offence?
    Where are the evidence that do accuse me?
    What lawful quest have given their verdict up
    Unto the frowning judge?
  • The Holy Spirit would lead us to think much upon our own sins. It is a dangerous thing for us to dwell upon the imperfections of others.
    • Ichabod Spencer, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 357.
  • Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.
    • Dean Stanley, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 357.
  • Though our works
    Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this
    At least is ours, to make them righteous.
  • One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. At any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

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Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 411-12.
  • On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait,
    And from your judgment must expect my fate.
  • Cruel and cold is the judgment of man,
    Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;
    But by-and-by will the deed and the plan
    Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
  • The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
    • Edmund Burke, Preface to Brissot's Address, Volume V, p. 67.
  • Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry,
    Safe in the inner fold;
    And maybe they hear, and wonder why,
    And marvel, out in the cold.
  • My friend, judge not me,
    Thou seest I judge not thee;
    Betwixt the stirrop and the ground,
    Mercy I askt, mercy I found.
    • Camden, Remaines Concerning Britaine (1637), p. 392. Quoted by Dr. Hill on epitaph to a man killed by a fall from his horse.
  • Woe to him, * * * who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
  • Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
    • Daniel. V. 27.
  • We judge others according to results; how else?—not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
    • George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book VII, Chapter II.
  • A justice with grave justices shall sit;
    He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
    • John Gay, The Birth of the Squire, l. 77.
  • In other men we faults can spy,
    And blame the mote that dims their eye;
    Each little speck and blemish find,
    To our own stronger errors blind.
    • John Gay, The Turkey and the Ant, Part I, line 1.
  • So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
    The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more.
    • John Gay, The What D'ye Call It, Act II, scene 9.
  • Art thou a magistrate? then be severe;
    If studious, copy fair what time hath blurr'd,
    Redeem truth from his jaws: if soldier,
    Chase brave employments with a naked sword
    Throughout the world. Fool not, for all may have
    If they dare try, a glorious life, or grave.
  • Male verum examinat omnis Corruptus judex.
    • A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
    • Horace, Satires, Book II. 2. 8.
  • Demens
    Judicio vulgi, sanus fortasse tuo.
    • Mad in the judgment of the mob, sane, perhaps, in yours.
    • Horace, Satires, Book I. 6. 97.
  • So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue,
    And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce
    Lie still without a fee.
  • Verso pollice.
    • With thumb turned.
    • Juvenal, Satires, III. 36. "Vertere" or "convertere pollicem" was the sign of condemnation; "premere" or "comprimere pollicem" (to press or press down the thumb) signified popular favour. To press down both thumbs (utroque pollice compresso) signified a desire to caress one who had fought well. See Horace, Epigram I. 18. 66. Prudentius, Ado. Sym. 1098, gives it "Converso pollice".
  • Quid tam dextro pede concipis ut te conatus non pœniteat votique peracti?
    • What is there that you enter upon so favorably as not to repent of the undertaking and the accomplishment of your wish?
    • Juvenal, Satires, X. 5.
  • Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur métier est de la différer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur métier.
    • A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.
    • Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères.
  • Half as sober as a judge.
    • Charles Lamb, Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Moxon (August, 1833).
  • On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne l'est jamais avec du jugement.
  • He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
    • John Locke, Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XXI.
  • Bisogna che i giudici siano assai, perché pochi sempre fanno a modo de' pochi.
    • There should be many judges, for few will always do the will of few.
    • Niccolò Machiavelli, Dei Discorsi, I, 7.
  • Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.
  • My suit has nothing to do with the assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbor. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with swelling words and extravagant gestures, dilate on the Battle of Cannæ, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Syllæ, the Marii, and the Mucii. It is time, Postumus, to say something about my three goats.
    • Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book VI, Epigram 19.
  • I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.
    • Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book VIII, Epigram 18.
  • Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum Quærere.
    • The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
    • Ovid, Tristium, I. 1. 37.
  • Since twelve honest men have decided the cause,
    And were judges of fact, tho' not judges of laws.
  • Denn aller Ausgang ist ein Gottesurtheil.
  • Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.
  • Si judicas, cognosce: si regnas, jube.
    • If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.
    • Seneca, Medea, CXCIV.
  • For I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
    • Seneca, On a Happy Life, Chapter I.
  • We shall be judged, not by what we might have been, but what we have been.
    • Sewell, Passing Thoughts on Religion, Sympathy in Gladness.
  • Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially.
  • But as when an authentic watch is shown,
    Each man winds up and rectifies his own,
    So in our very judgments.
  • Though our works
    Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this
    At least is ours, to make them righteous.
  • Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur.
    • The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted.
    • Syrus, Maxims.
  • Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.
    • Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.
    • Tacitus, Annales (AD 117), XV. 31.
  • Where blind and naked Ignorance
    Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed,
    On all things all day long.
  • Ita comparatam esse naturam omnium, aliena ut melius videant et dijudicent, quam sua.
    • The nature of all men is so formed that they see and discriminate in the affairs of others, much better than in their own.
    • Terence, Heauton timoroumenos, III. 1. 94.

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