Ralph Waldo Emerson Judging Quotations

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

A man cannot speak but he judges himself

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.