Henry James - Judge Quotes

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Besides, I try to judge things for myself; to judge wrong, I think, is more honourable than not to judge at all.

Henry James

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

Henry James

Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

Instead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity, it led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.

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One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Henry James

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

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