Quotes About Judgment

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

Pain and fear often make us act foolishly," Serenity advised. "Do not judge yourself harshly for your mistakes

Minorities, on the other hand, are always judged by their lowest common denominator.

Ask a woman if she's ambitious and she'll look at you as if you just asked whether she sticks pins in puppies for fun. Ask a woman if she's competitive and she'll look at you as if you suggested that she's a hooker.

A midwife knows too much . . . But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

When we stop drawing a line between moral failings and evil, between the very things that make us human and those that take away our humanity—when we lose sight of mercy and mistake it for weakness, all is lost.

Love is the opposite of judgment. Love is acceptance. It is accepting our own judgments without acting on them and accepting other people's judgments and beliefs without reacting to them. The result of acceptance is peace. Therefore, the antidote to war is acceptance. If everyone would let everyone else have their beliefs, it would be possible for people to live in harmony.

That judgments close hearts should be pretty obvious. Judgments come from a closed heart, so naturally they also cause others to close their hearts. Judgments are a perfect example of an internal reality, or climate, determining one's external reality. When you openly judge others, you will be judged in return, as predictably as the night follows the day.

The mind is useful in making distinctions between things, finding differences, and evaluating them.

antidote to judgment is accepting people the way they are and not imposing our desires and expectations on them. Our

The ego lies in wait for the opportunity to list someone's supposed faults (according to the ego's conditioning). So it's never long before the judgments and reservations begin to flow.

The way to living without judgments is simply to see the truth about them: They don't serve us or others. The ego leads us to believe they are important, relevant, and useful, and they just aren't. Once we see this, we are free to not indulge in them. They may arise in the mind out of habit, but eventually, if we don't give them our attention, this habit of thinking and talking about others will subside.

Nothing is ever lost in choosing love. Your judgments never worked anyway. They only created anger, hurt, and separation. When you see the truth of this, it becomes much easier to choose love over judgment.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

She just kept on criticizing me, but for contradictory reasons.

Tu non potrai fuggir le mie saette se l´arco tiro, o sciocca peccatrice! –

Of women he was as fond as dogs of the stick; but in the contrary he delighted more than any filthy fellow alive.

We have made thee neither of heaven nor of earth, Neither mortal or immortal, So that with freedom of choice and with honor, As thought the maker and molder of thyself, Thou mayest fashion thyself in whatever shape thou shalt prefer. Thou shalt have the power out of thy soul's judgment, to be reborn into the higher forms, which are divine.

Freedom means freedom from judgment. Freedom from that which binds and holds one back. Freedom from misconception. Freedom from anything that is not in complete resonance and harmony.

I am responsible only to myself and my God. Only I know what I did of my own free will.

no man's actions can be judged in isolation from the external elements that shape and influence his life.