Quotes About Judgment

If I had been blind, I could have got married, I am pretty sure.

He would rather the man be a pervert than a police officer

Lily closed her eyes in relief, then opened them again. Seeing through her eyes, Cade was aware of the shabbiness of the chambray shirt he'd strained at the seams, the calluses of his big hands, and the foreignness of his high-cheekboned brown face, but she seemed to see beyond these things. He hoped she saw beyond them. I

It came home to him then that he was separated from the people round him -- not as yet by bolts and bars, by prison walls, or by the sentence of the law, but by the intangible barriers which have separated the murderer from his kind ever since the mark was set on Cain.

before it even began to dawn upon me that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

Schopenhauer had said it years ago: "Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

cuando algo nos desagrada, es mucho más fácil criticar y censurar que tratar de comprender el punto de vista del prójimo. Con frecuencia es más fácil encontrar defectos

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter? If so, isn't it bad judgment to try to ram your opinions down the throats of other people? Isn't it wiser to make suggestions—and let the other person think out the conclusion?

Give a dog a bad name and you may as well hang him." But give him a good name—and see what happens!

people don't criticize themselves for anything, no matter how wrong it may be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

As Dr Johnson said, "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Distrust your first instinctive impression. Our first natural reaction in a disagreeable situation is to be defensive. Be careful. Keep calm and watch out for your first reaction. It may be you at your worst, not your best.

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

Get the facts. Analyze the facts. Arrive at a decision—and then act on that decision.

True? Yes, she had told the truth, but few people like to listen to truths that reflect on their judgment. So, being human, I tried to defend myself.

Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

He is nothing but a boy—a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man.

Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness. 'To know all is to forgive all.

So when you and I are tempted to criticize someone tomorrow, let's remember Al Capone, "Two Gun" Crowley and Albert Fall. Let's realize that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realize that the person we are going to correct and condemn will probably justify himself or herself, and condemn us in return; or, like the gentle Taft, will say: "I don't see how I could have done any differently from what I have.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12

Once I did bad and that I heard ever, twice I did good, but that I heard never.