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"Those who are accustomed to judge by feeling do not understand the process of reasoning, because they want to comprehend at a glance and are not used to seeking for first principles. Those, on the other hand, who are accustomed to reason from first principles do not understand matters of feeling at all, because they look for first principles and are unable to comprehend at a glance."
"We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us."
"Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy."
"My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion."
"No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner."
"Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent."
"If you would judge, understand."
"When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing."
"Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest."
"Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein."
"Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions."
"I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God."
"Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."
"I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs."
"I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field."
"Human judgment of human actions is true and void , that is to say, first true and then void.... The judgment of the word is true, the judgment in itself is void.... Only he who is a party can really judge, but as a party he cannot judge. Hence it follows that there is no possibility of judgment in the world, only a glimmer of it."
"To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy."
"No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him."
"No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house."
"Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong."
