Quotes About Judgment

Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?

At any rate, where books are concerned, it is notoriously difficult to fix labels of merit in such a way that they do not come off.

No, delightful as the pastime of measuring be, it is the most futile of all occupations, and to submit to the decrees of the measurers the most servile of attitudes. So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

There they hang in the mind the shapes of the books we have read solidified by the judgments we have passed on them — Robinson Crusoe , Emma , The Return of the Native . Compare the novels with these – even the latest and least of novels has a right to be judged with the best.

And again I am reminded by dipping into newspapers and novels and biographies that when a woman speaks to women she should have something very unpleasant up her sleeve. Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it is liking one felt, or disliking?

for better or worse, it is the commentator who has the last word.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

When I hear a critic speaking of an author's sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool

We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.

No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I can only admire but cannot emulate the accuracy of judgment of those who pose the fair young mammals photographed in magazines where the general neckline is just low enough to provoke a past master's chuckle and just high enough not to make a postmaster frown.

The lovely thing about humanity is that at times one may be unaware of doing right, but one is always aware of doing wrong.

In accordance with the law the death sentence was announced to Cincinnatus C. in a whisper.

There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot." - John Shade

The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.

We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known at all our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.

To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would--invariably, with icy precision--plump for the former.

Outwardly, Roy was an obvious figure. If you drew a pair of old brown loafers, two beige elbow patches, a black pipe, and two baggy eyes under heavy eyebrows, the rest was easy to fill out.

I] the is the duty of black men to judge the Southern discriminate lyrics. The present generation of Southerners are not responsible for the past, and they should not be blindly hated or blamed for it.

Letting go of judgments, the art of creating images and "letting it happen" are three of the basic skills involved in the Inner Game.

Uncomfortable without a standard for right and wrong, the judgmental mind makes up standards of its own. Meanwhile, attention is taken off what is and placed on the process of trying to do things right.

First the mind judges the event, then groups events, then identifies with the combined event and finally judges itself.

letting go of judgments does not mean ignoring errors. It simply means seeing events as they are and not adding anything to them.

Awareness of what is, without judgment, is relaxing, and is the best precondition for change