Georg C. Lichtenberg Judging Quotations

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.