"A coward judges all he sees by what he is."
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"We have been told mankind will be judged on the intent of the heart. No mortal can see into the depth of another. There is only One who can. His is the role of a judge-not ours. If you are prone to criticize or judge, remember, we never see the target a man aims at in life. We see only what he hits."
"You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter."
"I think the public will judge if stardom has gotten into my head."
"Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions."
"To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
"In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control."
"Hear Everything and judge for yourself"
"Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out."
"Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry."
"Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!"
"However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!"
"I hate victims who respect their executioners."
"Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast."
"In all things, therefore, where we have clear evidence from our ideas, and those principles of knowledge I have above mentioned, reason is the proper judge; and revelation, though it may, in consenting with it, confirm its dictates, yet cannot in such cases invalidate its decrees: nor can we be obliged, where we have the clear and evident sentience of reason, to quit it for the contrary opinion, under a pretence that it is matter of faith: which can have no authority against the plain and clear dictates of reason."
"The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have."
"I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph."
"So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray."
"It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity."
"Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message."