#Judgement Quotes

“Always assume incompetence before looking for conspiracy.”

“Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.”

“In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.”

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”

“All my life, I never believed most things I read in history books and a lot of things I learned in school. But now I've found I don't have the right to make a judgment on someone based on something I've read. I don't have the right to judge anything. That's the lesson I've learned”

“I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.”

“The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,some form of unconscious resistance to what is.On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.”

“Sometimes it's easier to see the madness in others---but we also have to see it in ourselves.”

“Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.”

“The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.”

“Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others”

“Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.”

“Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.”

“It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.”

“I look crazy, but I'm not. And the funny thing is, that other people don't look crazy, but they are.”