Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Judging Quotations

As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul has to take before it can approach to a community with Him, to the dwelling of the perfect, or to the intercourse and friendship of higher natures.

Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay...

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does