Henry James Judging Quotations

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.