Quotes About Judgment

Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves.

If she is efficient and capable or ambitious, it is assumed that she has failed to find satisfaction as a normal woman, even to the extent of implying a glandular abnormality or sexual perversion.

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.

E' curioso a vedere che quasi tutti gli uomini che valgono molto hanno le maniere semplici; e che quasi sempre le maniere semplici sono prese per indizio di poco valore.

It is another property of the human mind that whenever men can form no idea of distant and unknown things, they judge them by what is familiar and at hand.

Ci sono occasioni in cui occorre parlare e non bisogna dare nulla per scontato. Poi ci sono occasioni in cui, invece, devi rimanere in silenzio perché nell'aria c'è qualcosa d'impalpabile e prezioso, e le tue parole potrebbero disperderlo in un istante. Sono due concetti semplici. La parte difficile è decidere quando applicare una regola e quando l'altra.

Ci sono occasioni in cui occorre parlare e non bisogna dare nulla per scontato. Poi ci sono occasioni in cui, invece, devi rimanere in silenzio perché nell'aria c'è qualcosa d'impalpabile e prezioso, e le tue parole potrebbero disperderlo in un istante. Sono due concetti semplici. La parte difficile è capire quando applicare una regola e quando l'altra.

I looked at her. She wore a very tight and tiny two-piece orange bathing swimsuit that inadequately covered the overplump body I'd been using as a forget-yourself machine.

Until age forty a man has the face he was born with, at forty he has the face he deserves." George

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

No Galahad, he still cherished the conviction that women, with rare exceptions, were either "good" or "bad".

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments

we have the idea that there are big sins and little sins. But the book of James tells us that, 'Whosoever shall keep the whole law yet offend in one point, the same is guilty of all.' Do you see what that means? We think that murder is a much worse sin than gossip or telling a lie, but according to God, they are both offenses against His law, and we become offenders whether we commit murder or adultery

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

But when a person has done the right thing, we cannot then say that he knew how to do the wrong thing, or that he was competent to make mistakes.

But the rules which the agent observes and the criteria which he applies are one with those which govern the spectator's applause and jeers.

Lorsque la bêtise gifle l'intelligence, l'intelligence a le droit de se conduire bêtement.

The world had little patience or concern for innocence.

We can't heal our broken system by sitting in judgment. Within each of us lies the seeds of intolerance and hate. If we simply declare others wrong and ourselves right, we deepen the divide.