Great Throughts Treasury

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James Madison Mason

Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity.

Character | Charity | Judgment | Sincerity |

William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.

Character | Judgment | Knowledge | Man | Wise |

Kane O’Hara

Remember, when the judgment is weak the prejudice is strong.

Character | Judgment | Prejudice |

Joseph Parker

Falsehood is a hurry; it may be at any moment detected and punished; truth is calm, serene; its judgment is on high; its king cometh out of the chambers of eternity.

Character | Eternity | Falsehood | Hurry | Judgment | Truth |

Philo, aka Philo of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, Philo Judaeus of Alexandria, Yedidia, "Philon", and Philo the Jew NULL

Each of the four main virtues - wisdom, courage, temperance, justice - is a sovereign wielding authority.

Authority | Character | Courage | Justice | Wisdom |

William Penn

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

Business | Character | Judgment | Mind | Time | Will | Wisdom | Business |

Joseph Parker

Outward judgment often fails, inward justice never.

Character | Judgment | Justice |

Quintilian, fully Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also Quintillian and Quinctilian NULL

Vice, the opposite of virtue, shows us more clearly what virtue is. Justice becomes more obvious when we have injustice to compare it to. Many such things are proved by their contraries.

Character | Injustice | Injustice | Justice | Virtue | Virtue |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The savage lives within himself, while social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him.

Character | Consciousness | Existence | Judgment | Man | Opinion | Receive |

Cardinal de Retz, Jean Francois-Paul de Gondil

Of all passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Character | Fear | Judgment |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The fundamental principle of all morals, on the basis of which I have reasoned in all my writings... is that man is naturally good, loving justice and order; that there is absolutely no original perversity in the human heart, and that the first movements of nature are always right.

Character | Good | Heart | Justice | Man | Nature | Order | Right |

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our first duties are to ourselves; our first feelings are centered on self; all our instincts are at first directed to our own preservation and our own welfare. Thus the first notion of justice springs not from what we owe to others, but from what is due to us.

Character | Feelings | Justice | Self |

H. W. Andrews

While an open mind is priceless, it is priceless only when its owner has the courage to make a final decision which closes the mind for action after the process of viewing all sides of the question has been completed. Failure to make a decision after due consideration of all the facts will quickly brand a man unfit for a position of responsibility. Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

Action | Better | Consideration | Courage | Decision | Experience | Failure | Fear | Habit | Judgment | Man | Mind | Nothing | Position | Question | Responsibility | Right | Time | Will | Wisdom | Failure |

Berthold Auerbach

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts... and strives without fear of man to do justice to them.

Fear | Justice | Man | Wisdom |