Quotes About Judgment

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

Compassion is fierce and strong, and it holds people accountable. But it doesn't do it with anger or judgment.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

It's never what people do that makes us angry; it's what we tell ourselves about what they did.

Most women have no characters at all.

Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it.

Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

O Lord, correct me, but with judgment: not in Your anger, lest You bring me to nothing.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

Anger makes us all stupid.

Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

To make decisions while infuriated is as unwise and foolish as it is for a captain to put out to sea in a raging storm.

The worst temptation of religious people has always been to publish and punish the sins of (other) sinners in this world, with no patience or deference for the judgment of God.

you're too pretty for your own good, maybe. It could get you an early start on a miserable life.

It is well established among us that you may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people's money in your pocket or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands or mud on your shoes.

There is also the Territory of historical self-righteousness: if we had lived south of the Ohio in 1830, we would not have owned slaves; if we had lived on the frontier, we would have killed no Indians, violated no treaties, stolen no land. The probability is overwhelming that if we had belonged to the generations we deplore, we too would have behaved deplorably.

Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.