However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be times -not many, I know, or we should have no judges- when the same frightful question must be answered. Not faced, you see, but answered. Every now and again he must have to say to himself, in effect, "Everyone agrees that this colour is black, and my reason tells me it is so, but on my soul, do I know? . Margery Allingham
Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.
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Albert Camus
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
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S.N. Goenka
Always give your resume of good deeds when you run into someone that you wronged many years ago. They simply need to know today's version of you, before they judge you on yesterday's news.
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Shannon L. Alder
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
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Anonymous
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?
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Jay Woodman
More Quotes By Margery Allingham
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift...
But there are roughly two sorts of informed people, aren't there? People who start off right by observing the pitfalls and mistakes and going round them, and the people who fall into them and get out and know they're there because of that. They both...
The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.
There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.
There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.
