Quotes About Judgment

The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others. People want to be around you if you feel enthusiastic about yourself and others. Just as dissatisfaction with yourself is contagious, so is enthusiasm.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

What a sublime conception is that of a last judgment!" said he,—"a righting of all the wrongs of ages!—a solving of all moral problems, by an unanswerable wisdom! It is, indeed, a wonderful image.

A very humane jurist once said, The worst use you can put a man to is to hang him. No; there is another use that a man can be put to that is WORSE!

He'll go to torment, and no mistake," said little Jake.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

Why is someone only passionate about books if they're into literary books that win prizes? Why can't you be passionate about books and only read romance?

It's different up here, you know." "I know," said Laura miserably. "I was -- enjoying myself, that's all." Nick watched her for a moment. "Don't look so tragic about it, Laura. It's not a crime to enjoy yourself, you know." "Yes, it is," muttered Laura, feeling as if she were in some biblical parable, the one where the Lord wreaks vengeance on the stupid girl who is a foolish wanton by removing the last shred of common sense in her brain.

people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on. I'm sure you've noticed that many individuals and groups try to enhance their self-esteem by diminishing others.

Whatever we seek to hide makes shame grow.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.

The all but unanimous judgment seems to be that we, the democracies, are just as responsible for the rise of the dictators as the dictatorships themselves, and perhaps more so.

Intelligence resembles insanity only to the stupid.

We're all animals, you know? We do what we think is right.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on

If you can't dance then you are a loser.