Judgment Quotes

If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Judge not, before you judge yourself.Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment.The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too,so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.

Cultivated people foster what is good in others,not what is bad.Petty people do the opposite.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader,are your own nature reflected in them.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.

I know and see too well, when not voluntarily blind, the speedy limits opersons called high and worthy.

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

Once upon a time a man whose ax was missing suspected his neighbor's son. The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief and spoke like a thief. But the man found his ax while digging in the valley, and the next time he saw his neighbor's son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other child.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

If you want to know how a man stands, go among the people who are in his same business.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

We evaluate the services that anyone renders to us according to the value he puts on them, not according to the value they have for us.

What is life? A continuous praise and blame.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.