Quotes About Judgment

The man who trusts other men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold.

Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

The world is more exacting than God himself.

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

Tattlers also and busy bodies, speaking things which they ought not.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

As well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Hell is indefinite.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted, this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, no matter what facts develop later on.