Venture into the most inspirational collection of quotes, maxims and aphorisms.

Browse by keyword or run an advanced search by authors, sources and languages. Enrich your life through inspiring quotations that will give you food for thought!

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

Epictetus - Handbook (Enchiridion) /

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Albert Camus - Speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1957 /

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach /

Haste in judgement is to look for guilt.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

judgement

Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

Personally, I enjoy understanding people more than judging them.

Stefan Zweig - Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman /

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus - The Fall /

judgement

It is possible to entertain no thought about this, and not to be troubled in spirit; for things of themselves are not so constituted as to create our judgements upon them.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations /

So in order to act well it is sufficient to judge well, and to judge as well as one can is sufficient to enable one to do one's best.

René Descartes - Discourse on the Method /

judgement

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

Hannah Arendt /

I cannot live, experience, think, value, and act in any world which is not in some sense in me, and derives its meaning and truth from me.

Edmund Husserl /

Among the greatest discoveries that the human mind has made in recent times belongs the art of judging books without having read them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg /

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work.

He who is quick to judge is quick to repent.

Publilius Syrus - Sentences /

judgement

He who is quick to judge is quick to repent.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

We do not judge the people we love.

Jean-Paul Sartre /

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Gustav Jung

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche