The Times Great Quotations by Times UK

Author:Times UK
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780008317263
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

JUDGMENT AND WORTH

It is easier to know man in general than to know one man in particular.

Maximes (1665)

François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (1613–1680)

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The glory of great men should always be measured against the means they used to acquire it.

Maximes (1665)

François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (1613–1680)

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How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

Wives and Daughters (1864)

Elizabeth Gaskell, English writer (1810–1865)

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Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and satirist (1742–1799)

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To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend judgment and comprehension in a definitive description is the hardest thing of all.

The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)

GWF Hegel, German philosopher (1770–1831)

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.

Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose (1784)

Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (1724–1804)

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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

John Henry Newman, English poet and cardinal (1801–1890)

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It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Prophet Muhammad (571–632)

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The worth of a soul cannot be told.

Unknown, possibly Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), writer and abolitionist (1745–1797)

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I would rather have a plain russet-coated captain that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call “a gentleman” and is nothing else.

[Letter to Sir William Spring, 1643]

Oliver Cromwell, English military and political leader (1599–1658)

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His doubts are better than most people’s certainties.

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician (1690–1764)

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A judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.

Special Laws (1st century)

Philo, Hellenized Jewish philosopher (25 BC–AD 50)

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It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

It biases the judgment.

A Study in Scarlet (1887)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (1859–1930)

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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

The Economist (c. 1875)

Walter Bagehot, British journalist, businessman and essayist (1826–1877)

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Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth.

But we seem to have no other.

Manservant and Maidservant (1947)

Ivy Compton-Burnett, English writer (1884–1969)

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