My Favorite Quotes
collected by Don Richard Paladin
The following are a collection of some of my favorite quotes. This section of quotes is on judgment. If you have any of interest to add, please email me at sunergos@juno.com. Other quotation pages: Character Cycles Understanding
Judgment
1. The more a man knows the more he forgives. - Anonymous
2. A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind. - William Shenstone
3. Trouble that is easily recognized is half-cured. - St. Francis De Sales
4. Compassion is the basis of all morality. - Arthur Schopenhauer
5. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
6. Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves. - Chaung Tzu 11 (Taoism)
7. Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand. - Baltasar Gracian
8. Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. - Alfred De Musset
9. The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. - George Eliot
10. It is surely better to pardon too much than to condemn too much. - George Eliot
11. We can scarcely hate any one that we know. - William Hazlitt
12. God grant that not only the love of liberty but thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." Benjamin Franklin
13. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is the sun after a shower. - Johann Wolgang von Goethe
14. The least error should humble, but we should never permit even the greatest to discourage us. - Potter
15. To live with others we need to see the situation from the other person's point of view. - Paul S. McElroy
16. That nature only is good when it shall do unto another whatever is not good for its own self:--Do not unto others all that which is not well for oneself. - Dadistan-i-dinck 49,5 Shayast-na-shayast 13,29 (Zoroastrian)
17. If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
18. At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them. - John Ruskin
19. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Johathan Swift
20. It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others. - Charlotte Bronte
21. It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for oneself. - Duc De La Rochefoucauld
22. Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23. They who quarrel with others, instead of quarrelling with their own hearts, waste their lives. - Amar Das M.2, 167 (Sikhism)
24. Endeavor to be patient in bearing the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort soever they be; for thou thyself also hast many failings which must be borne with by others. - Thomas A. Kempis
25. Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about--you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
26. Love has two daughters--kindness and patience. - English proverb
27. We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer
28. Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. - St. Francis de Sales
30. A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell
31. One way to get high blood-pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. - Earl Wilson
32. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
33. When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals. - George Berndard Shaw
34. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. - Harper Lee
35. The difference between news and gossip lies in whether you raise you voice or lower it. - Franklin P. Jones
36. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
37. Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery. - Matthew Arnold
38. There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
39. You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting the leg off a giant. - Benjamin Franklin
40. ...everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances--to choose one's own way. - Viktor Frankl
41. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. - Michel de Montaigne
42. It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. - Aeschylus (c. 478 B.C.)
43. When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own. - Charles Caleb Colton Lacon, 1825
44. We are all wise for other people, none for himself. - Emerson, 1834, Journals
45. It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful. - Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, 1750-52
46. Many receive advice, few profit by it. - Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings, 1rst c. B.C.
47. We may give advice, but we cannot inspire conduct. - La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, (1665)
48. All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. - Bible, Matthew 7:12
49. Do not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. - Bible, Romans, 12:21
50. Seek not good from without: seek it within yourself, or you will never find it. - Epictetus, Discourses, 2nd c.
51. Let him that would move the world, first move himself. - Socrates (B.C. 469 - 399)
52. If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all. - Buddha (B.C. 568 - 488)
53. More will be accomplished, and better, and with more ease, if every man does what he is best fitted to do, and nothing else. - Plato (B.C. 427? - 347?)
54. The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humbler, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter. - Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
55. What are the qualities that make for success? Judgement, industry, health, and the greatest of these is judgement. - Beaverbrook (1879-1964)
56. Wise it is to comprehend the whole. - Young (1683 - 1765)
57. This I know - if all men should take their troubles to the market to barter with their neighbors, not one, when he had seen the troubles of other men, but would be glad to carry his own home again. - Herodotus (B.C. 484-425)
58. There are two sentences inscribed upon the Ancient oracle... "Know thyself" and "Nothing too much"; and upon these all other precepts depend. - Plutarch (46-129 A.D.)
59. Wisdom is only found in truth. - Goethe (1749-1832)
60. We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives true value and commendation to virtue. - Cicero (B.C. 106-43)
61. All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. - Goethe (1749 - 1832)
62. It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub! - Antoine de Rivaroli (1753-1801)
63. Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life. - Sir John Lubbock
64. If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep it till the next day, and it will very often never go at all. - Lubbock (1834 - 1913)
65. Let us not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or occasion to fall in his brother's way. - Romans 14-13
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