Quotes About Judgment

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso, those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

Positive thoughts (joy, happiness, fulfillment, achievement, worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm, calm, well-being, ease, energy, love). - Negative thoughts (judgment, unworthiness, mistrust, resentment, fear) produce negative results (tension, anxiety, alienation, anger, fatigue).

When somebody is angry with us, we draw a halo around his or her head, in our minds. Does the person stop being angry then? Well, we don't know! We know, though, that when we draw a halo around a person, suddenly the person starts to look like an angel to us.

The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.

He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favour of two.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.

Among the smaller duties in life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

The true test of independent judgement is being able to dislike someone who admires us.

With faint praises one another damn.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.

The proud hate pride - in others.

Modern kitchen - where the pot calls the kettle chartreuse.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.