42 Judgment Quotes

The ability to form sound judgments is crucial in navigating life's complexities, whether in personal relationships, professional endeavors, or self-reflection. Quotes about judgment offer invaluable insights and reminders about fairness, wisdom, and empathy. In this carefully curated collection, we gather 42 of the most thought-provoking and insightful judgment quotes. These words from philosophers, authors, and leaders challenge us to re-evaluate our perceptions, understand others better, and strive for greater self-awareness. Dive in and let these powerful quotes inspire a more mindful and discerning approach to your everyday decisions.

1. “I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.” - Henry James

2. “Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.” - Albert Camus

3. “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.” - John Boyle O'Reilly

4. “We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.” - Jimmy Carter

5. “What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

6. “Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.” - Katherine Dunn

7. “Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.” - Michel de Montaigne

8. “These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice.” - Marilynne Robinson

9. “Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.” - Albert Camus

10. “People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.” - Albert Camus

11. “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

12. “God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.” - Abraham Verghese

13. “How can I judge?" she said at last. "To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster." She let her head fall into her arms and started crying quietly. "I miss him! Curse him! I miss him!"Mithorden put a hand on her shoulder and let her cry for a few minutes. A sad smile slowly spread across his face. "I'm glad you can forgive him," he said at last.Luthiel lifted her head. "How do you know?"Because you miss him.” - Robert Fanney

14. “Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.” - Michel de Montaigne

15. “Great men look greater than yesterday.” - Toba Beta

16. “We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...” - Emil Cioran

17. “If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.” - C. JoyBell C.

18. “If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.” - Alistair Begg

19. “How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?” - Virginia Woolfová

20. “We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.” - Erica Jong

21. “We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.” - Jose Emilio Pacheco

22. “Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.” - Ethan Hawke

23. “Beauty’s not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautifuldoesn’t mean there’s no soul beneath. Doesn’t meanthat person hasn’t suffered like everyone else, doesn’t meanthey don’t hope to still be a good human being in an awfulworld. (Gabriel)” - Rachel Cohn

24. “and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.” - C. S. Lewis

25. “A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement” - Edmund Burke

26. “Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.” - Shannon Alder

27. “It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.” - Herman Hesse

28. “Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.” - Fay Weldon

29. “Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.” - Alain De Botton

30. “Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

31. “When we make judgements we're inevitably acting on limited knowledge, isn't it best to ask if we seek to understand, or simply let them be?” - jay woodman

32. “Know yourself in order to be better not to criticize and judge yourself” - Dr.abdulkareem bkar

33. “I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of my fellow men. But we have all a chance of meeting with some pity, some tenderness, some charity, when we are dead: it is the living only who cannot be forgiven - the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind. While the heart beats, bruise it - it is your only opportunity; while the eye can still turn towards you with moist, timid entreaty, freeze it with an icy unanswering gaze; while the ear, that delicate messenger to the inmost sanctuary of the soul, can still take in the tones of kindness, put it off with hard civility, or sneering compliment, or envious affectation of indifference; while the creative brain can still throb with the sense of injustice, with the yearning for brotherly recognition - make haste - oppress it with your ill-considered judgements, your trivial comparisons, your careless misrepresentations. The heart will by and by be still - ubi saeoa indignatio ulterius cor lacerate nequit; the eye will cease to entreat; the ear will be deaf; the brain will have ceased from all wants as well as from all work. Then your charitable speeches may find vent; then you may remember and pity the toil and the struggle and the failure; then you may give due honour to the work achieved; then you may find extenuation for errors, and may consent to bury them ("The Lifted Veil")” - Mary Ann Evans

34. “It's time to give the gavel back to God, we were never meant to be judges.” - Evinda Lepins

35. “…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all supposed to believe that, but obviously, none of us actually do. And nor should we, because it does! It does matter! And the people who genuinely believe it doesn't tend to be the very people who ought to care most what other people think of them, because what the other people are thinking is, 'No, actually, I don't think the Chinese are "up to something,"' or, 'You should use mouthwash,' or, 'Your mania for the collective socialization of agriculture will surely cause the deaths of millions,' or, 'Forty cats is too many cats.” - David Mitchell

36. “I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.” - Freya North

37. “a man only knows what he's experienced” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. “Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.” - Colleen Hoover

39. “It's ridiculous, how people judge talent. Or, rather, don't judge. They just default to what everyone else thinks.” - Siobhan Vivian

40. “They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the Earth. They are the focus of evil in the modern world.... So, in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride, the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.” - Ronald Reagan

41. “Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.” - Shannon L. Alder

42. “How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse.#Page: 10” - Kazuo Ishiguro