If you would judge, understand.


Seneca

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

If you would judge, understand.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Don't judge me until you understand me. You can't understand me if you've already judged me.
ORSON SCOTT CARD
If you dont understand the MOTIVE, don't judge the means!
STEPHEN MAGNUS
As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Do not judge what you cannot understand. Understanding brings about good judgement.
POATE J MATAIRAVULA
You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, bec...
JOAN OF ARC
But I won't judge you if you don't judge me
MORGAN PARKER
If I was Judge Del Rosario, I would say Ili, of all people, you know better.
DUANE CHAPMAN
Don’t judge anything. If you have to judge, judge with kindness and love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
I would imagine if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
MITCH HEDBERG
To really understand someone, you must be able to see things their way before you judge them
EE
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
MITCH HEDBERG
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
If you judge, investigate
SENECA
What did I owe you, Peter? Truth and justice? If judges would judge, if lawyers wouldn’t trick, if...
JUDY BLUNDELL
Don't judge people, read them, and if you can't, don't judge them.
PETER MIDTGARD
We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.
ROY T. BENNETT
Always look to understand rather than to judge.
AARON SANTOS
if you read, you'll judge
KURT COBAIN
Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.
A.J. CHILSON
Everyone has a past You have to know someone to understand them THINK... before you judge from the o...
TAWANA BEECHAM
You can't possibly judge your ability to control something until you've experienced the extremes of ...
RICHARD RUSSO
If anybody can do it, Seneca can. Without question, Michael Vick is the best athlete in the NFL.
GRANT WISTROM
Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.
PETER FINCH
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
CHINESE PROVERBS
You can't put just anybody back there and simulate what Mike can do. With Seneca here, he's really g...
ROCKY BERNARD
Judge my Silence ; If you do , you own me..
ANONYMOUS
Don't judge me by the color of my skin. If you must, judge me from within.
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN
We'd love to be State Champions, but we would have wanted it by winning the game. If it wasn't Hales...
JOE MURPHY
(They are) listeners of a lie, devourers of what is forbidden; therefore if they come to you, judge ...
QURAN
It's very frustrating...I can't understand how a touch judge can award a try as it was.
ANDY ROBINSON
We understand what the court did. We appreciate the fact that the judge listened. He thought it was ...
THEODORE OLSON
You've taken the Seneca Valley taxpayers for roughly $320,000.
TOM ROTH
I write down my thoughts here. If you don’t understand any, I would appreciate if you could skip i...
NAQIBULLAH PAIMAN
If you judge people you have no time to love them.
MOTHER THERESA
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER THERESA
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER TERESA
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command. [Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA)
Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN
Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me...
BECCA FITZPATRICK
I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you...
BILL FLORES
If you judge people, you will have no time to love them.
UNKNOWN
Don't judge people by their religious, cultural, or professional background. Judge if you must, by t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR
If I lie about the truth which you will know somehow later, then you would tell me a liar. If you di...
TOBA BETA
If you can't understand me, either you understand me or I don't understand myself.
EPHDAN
If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.
NIKKI GIOVANNI
Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'
JOSEPH BIDEN
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetu...
SENECA
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If a jury wasn't convinced that there wasn't a breach, I'm not sure a judge would be. To think anyon...
PAUL ANDERSON
When you judge others, you judge yourself.
JIM GENOVESE
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD
If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you...
DAVID SEDARIS
Don't judge me as if you are a saint. Don't look at me as if you haven't sinned.
AGNES ARCILLA
Learn the truth...never assume.
Understand the plight...never judge.
Put yourself in someo...
KEMI SOGUNLE
Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know t...
DR. CARL SAGAN
I certainly would not vote against a particular judge already in office because of a decision in a c...
CHARLES T. CANADY
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD
It is hard to judge success if you have never known failure.
SOLA KOSOKO
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study t...
BEN BERNANKE
Judge not unless you judge yourself
BOB MARLEY
Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the...
CHRIS WEBBER
If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Carl Junction and Seneca is a big rivalry. I quickly found that out.
BRAD SHORTER
I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?
RACHEL WARD
We understand this application is inherently beneficial. Quite bluntly, if you weren't requesting va...
DENNIS COLLINS
Before you judge others, first judge yourself.
TOMMY POLO
before you judge someone else, judge yourself
ZAYN MALIK
Judge Moore assured me that he would be able to meet the deadlines that judge Hoeveler set,
EDWARD DAVIS
If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you...
JUNOT DíAZ
The judge instructs the jury to judge the case on the basis of the law. A jury swears on an oath to ...
GENE KNIZE
Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it.
KRISTIN CASHORE
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
ST. AUGUSTINE
In case of religion, if there is no scientific evidence of such a thing, you should not judge those ...
DANIEL MELGAçO
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember w...
ORIANA FALLACI
That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—t...
EMILY RABOTEAU
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation,
HARUKI MURAKAMI
Before you go judge people, judge yourself first.
EPHDAN
All those images (from the Seneca game) came back in my mind again. We lost that game, and that real...
TIM MORRIS
I would imagine the judge would like to have a standby attorney.
ABRAHAM DASH
If your heart doesn't judge you anything, fear neither God nor Devil therefore, Don't judge yourself...
NTAMBARA SYLVESTRE OWEN BERBASON
I'm simply me,your simply you, You don't judge me,I don't judge you
KESSIE ADME
They condemn what they do not understand
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You m...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than...
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
ROGER SIMON
Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.
C.S. LEWIS
If a deputy was to go before a judge and say this person did this to me, a judge would sign a warran...
DENNIS SCHEIB
You can’t make other people understand what you are trying to explain if you don’t understand it...
VIKRANT PARSAI
O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are com...
WILLIAM WALLACE
Don't judge people before judging yourself, so don't judge anyone since you won't judge yourself any...
SAEED AWAD
I would ask you to understand that people can change.
JEFFREY LICHTMAN
If I lie about truth which you will know somehow later,
then you would call me a liar. But If ...
TOBA BETA
If you knew the entire history of how I came to be where I am now, you would understand persistence....
LT. WAYNE HUDSON
It would never occur to me to judge anyone.
CARLA BRUNI
That's not something that a judge would do lightly.
BRAD LYERLA

More Seneca

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sk...
SENECA
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
SENECA
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA
Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA
Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
SENECA
Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA
It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
SENECA
One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavat)
SENECA
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
SENECA
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
SENECA
All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
SENECA
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA
He who profits by a crime commits it
SENECA
You are your choices.
SENECA
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
SENECA
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if t...
SENECA
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another
SENECA
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember
SENECA
Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that do...
SENECA
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
SENECA
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the ...
SENECA
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
SENECA
He who is brave is free.
SENECA
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious...
SENECA
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture tha...
SENECA
It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.
SENECA
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow
SENECA
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without c...
SENECA
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and t...
SENECA
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed,...
SENECA
Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
SENECA
If you judge, investigate
SENECA
He is most powerful who has power over himself
SENECA
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tel...
SENECA
A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
SENECA
Time discovers truth.
SENECA
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
SENECA
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
SENECA
While we teach, we learn.
SENECA
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
SENECA
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both exist...
SENECA
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but wh...
SENECA
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
SENECA
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
SENECA
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA
There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor g...
SENECA
Abstinence is easier than temperance
SENECA
Whom they have injured, they also hate.
SENECA
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the whe...
SENECA
And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and neve...
SENECA
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
SENECA
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
SENECA
The best ideas are common property.
SENECA
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the int...
SENECA
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
SENECA
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
SENECA
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)
SENECA
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
SENECA
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
SENECA
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to cont...
SENECA
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the sou...
SENECA
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
SENECA
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
SENECA
We learn not in the school, but in life
SENECA
Life without the courage for death is slavery
SENECA
The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie...
SENECA
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
SENECA
All cruelty springs from weakness.
SENECA
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they emb...
SENECA
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
SENECA
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do...
SENECA
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.
SENECA
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, an...
SENECA
There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
SENECA
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
SENECA
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest...
SENECA
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres...
SENECA
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of app...
SENECA
What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
SENECA
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
SENECA
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things...
SENECA
Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
SENECA
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces...
SENECA
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA
The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
SENECA
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetu...
SENECA
Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize...
SENECA
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SENECA
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
SENECA
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
SENECA
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passi...
SENECA
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passi...
SENECA
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live wit...
SENECA
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
SENECA
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjo...
SENECA
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be i...
SENECA
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace in it.
SENECA
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SENECA
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
SENECA
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
SENECA
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA
The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
SENECA
Injustice never rules forever
SENECA
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
SENECA
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man...
SENECA
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SENECA
It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
SENECA
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it show...
SENECA
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
SENECA
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SENECA
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
SENECA
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
SENECA
He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
SENECA
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
SENECA
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
SENECA
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SENECA
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
SENECA
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before...
SENECA
As was his language so was his life.
SENECA
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
SENECA
All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA
One should count each day a separate life.
SENECA
One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)
SENECA
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
SENECA
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
SENECA
No one can wear a mask for very long.
SENECA
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
SENECA
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
SENECA
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
SENECA
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
SENECA
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
SENECA
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
SENECA
It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
SENECA
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
SENECA
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right ...
SENECA
It better befits a man to laugh than to lament over it.
SENECA
It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
SENECA
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've be...
SENECA
For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless...
SENECA
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
SENECA
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
SENECA
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -...
SENECA
What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECA
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many ...
SENECA
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly
SENECA
Life is warfare.
SENECA
They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their...
SENECA
I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy
SENECA
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught
SENECA
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choi...
SENECA