Quotes About Judgment

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Feelings aren't supposed to be rational. If we stop judging fears as invalid, we can find a deeper empathy.

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

Jusging by the sour glance she threw on me as she said this, I concluded that I represented those 'late changes' to which all the sorrows of the house were referred. I felt unhappy under the ill-will even of this odious old woman, being one of those unhappily constructed mortals who cannot be indifferent when they reasonably ought, and always yearn after kindness, even that of the worthless.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

Young he was not, so that one had to call him old, but the word did not suit him.

All their antics have left them far from tired, though, to judge by the way they are dominating the conversation, with great animation and an unsortable pidgin of academic-use mixed with hipster jargon.

When it came to showing models to Steve Jobs, we would select models that we ourselves thought were good,' said Satzger.

how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense.

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

To fill a small bag means selecting,and choosing, and evaluating. There's no logicial end to that process. Pretty soon I would have a big bag, and then two or three. A month later I'd be like the rest of you.

Clay broke out in a big grin, and I realized he'd make a terrific black Santa Claus and, with the political correctness and diversity thing being trendy at the time, I thought it might even be a money-making idea for him. But I kept the idea to myself, not sure if it'd be taken as some kind of racist jab. You can't be too sure these days.

And those deadbeat fathers weren't supporting their kids, either." Her mom had terrible taste in men, and poor judgment, and was the maker of most of her own troubles, but Eve wasn't going to concede a thing to this man. For the sake of this discussion, her mom was a saint.

I saw her walking past my house every week. She kept getting bigger and bigger. It was like she was mocking me. It was so unfair. All the people who work here are poor, uneducated, and illegal. The only thing they're good at is cleaning toilets and getting pregnant. Nobody would miss her

I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl.

But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In every smoothed wrinkle, every perfected motion, there was an air of moral judgment, though he didn't intend it. There were people, he implied, who lived sloppy lives, and then there were people like him. ~Gilley

people often make correct predictions on the basis of erroneous beliefs and defective prediction strategies.

Whatever we most admire and look up to—God, the truths of mathematics, the laws of nature—is endowed with an existence that transcends time. We act inside time but judge our actions by timeless standards. As a result of this paradox, we live in a state of alienation from what we most value. This alienation affects every one of our aspirations.

I've never seen black men with fine white women. They be ugly. Mugly dogs.

It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time — in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.

Satan greets people in hell by saying: "You'll find that there's no right or wrong here—just what works for you.