Quotes About Judgment

We may find the attractions of a particular member of the opposite sex irresistible, even though the better judgment of our better self tells us that a liaison with that person is not in anyone's long-term interests.

H. L. Mencken, again with characteristic cynicism, defined conscience as the inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.

The right to be Christian' seems in this case to mean 'the right to poke your nose into other people's private lives.

The genes are master programmers, and they are programming for their lives. They are judged according to the success of their programs in coping with all the hazards that life throws at their survival machines, and the judge is the ruthless judge of the court of survival.

It is a commonplace that good historians don't judge statements from past times by the standards of their own.

The main conclusion of Hauser and Singer's study was that there is no statistically significant difference between atheists and religious believers in making these judgements.

What would be wicked would be to say, 'I will not give this person a job because he belongs to this category of people , and there's some kind of statistical tendency for this category of person to be different from that category ...' Treat them as individuals! Look at the qualifications of this individual, and forget about the group, race, whatever you want to call it, to which he belongs.

But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.

One cannot distinguish between human and non-human acts. One cannot point, one cannot say this man here is a man and that man there is a devil.

They felt their own judgements absolute and the judgements of others idiocy or wickedness deserving the worst punishment. It was as if everyone had to believe their own story—any story, really—because if they stopped believing there would only be reality left to deal with. No one doubted, or was unsure; every individual was infallible because it was their truth, and so there could be no truth and the world was wrong.

Maybe he doesn't really think it now. But sometimes things are said and they're not just words. They are everything that one person thinks of another in a sentence. Just one sentence.

I knew you could know the words but not match them with the life. But to be able to do it right said something about you. And I didn't know if my judgment was good enough, or exactly what was good or bad. Though there must be times, I thought, when there was no right thing to know, just as there were times when there was no right thing to do.

Our sympathies are most required when they seem least due.

See it? Oh, I have no interest in seeing it. Seeing it might get in the way of my opinion.

What makes the bias particularly pernicious is that we all recognize this bias in others but not in ourselves.

So to put it simply, forcing people to choose is not always wise, and remaining neutral is not always possible.

MBA students are not the only ones overconfident about their abilities. The "above average" effect is pervasive. Ninety percent of all drivers think they are above average behind the wheel

No hagas juicios en tres dimensiones de lo que sólo puedes ver en la pantalla de un televisor.

Childishness is a common enough sin amongst humans. Perhaps we should not be so quick to judge.

In the end , she said, a little bitterly, facing him in warm perfumed bathwater one evening, despite wealth, despite wisdom, despite contacts and court alliances, I am still a woman. And I will be judged on all counts for that single fact, via the cursed fucking geometry of how pleasing I am to the eye. Cheekbones and arse cheeks are my destiny.

Something's not right. Without applying rationale as a mediator, select your first impulse. What would it be?

We all know how broke-crazy-promiscuous-unreliable artists are. And if they don't have to be, then what's my excuse?

You may call it having standards. What you should be calling it is perfectionism.

The morning pages will teach you to stop judging and just let yourself write. So what if you're tired, crabby, distracted, stressed? Your artist is a child and it needs to be fed. Morning pages feed your artist child. So write your morning pages.