Judging Quotes - Page 54

Nobody wants a judge to be subject to the political whim of the moment.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.

Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.

Many of us have a tendency to deny any negative feelings. We judge them as "bad" or "unenlightened" when, in fact, they are our stepping stone to enlightenment. Our so-called negative feelings or attitudes are really parts of ourselves that need recognition, love, and healing. Not only is it safe and healthy to acknowledge and accept all of our feelings and beliefs, it is necessary, if we are to get in touch with the fears and pockets of blocked energy that are holding us back from what we want.

If you judge, investigate.

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

I'm a judge. It seemed to me that it was critical to try to take action to stem the criticism and help people understand that in the constitutional framework, it's terribly important not to have a system of retaliation against decisions people don't like.

Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained

None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most specious rhetorician that the lots of life are equal; yet it cannot be denied that every one has his peculiar pleasures and vexations, that external accidents operate variously upon different minds, and that no man can exactly judge from his own sensations what another would feel in the same circumstances.

There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law.

I've never met or spoken to David Lee Roth, yet it's rather ironic that even he's saying Eddie's lying about things. I'm saying he's not telling the truth, yet Eddie insists that the two of us are lying! You be the judge.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

In most civil law systems there are no dissents. There is a single opinion for the court: it is unanimous; it is highly stylized; you can't tell which judge wrote it.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed."

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.