Quotes About Judgment

I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.

We bring these delightful creatures into the world—eagerly, happily—and then before long they are spying upon and judging us, rarely favourably. Having children is our fondest wish but, in doing so, we breed our acutest critics. It is a preposterous situation—but entirely of our own making.

That's the parent's lot! We bring these delightful creatures into the world—eagerly, happily—and then before long they are spying upon and judging us, rarely favourably. Having children is our fondest wish but, in doing so, we breed our acutest critics. It is a preposterous situation—but entirely of our own making." Susan

Until you can give up being a judge of yourself and others, you cannot begin a search into compassion.

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this off with the head attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?

Before you judge me, look in the mirror.

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The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt.

Ah! he would have found it out fast enough if she had been nice-looking. The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in another.

You have heard of beautiful young ladies falling in love at first sight, and have thought it natural enough. But a housemaid out of a reformatory, with a plain face and a deformed shoulder, falling in love, at first sight, with a gentleman who comes on a visit to her mistress's house, match me that, in the way of an absurdity, out of any story-book in Christendom, if you can! I

we will leave this place, and go into other lodgings - you as the mistress; and I as the maid. I should be found out, ma'am, interposed Louisa, trembling at the prospect before her. I am not a lady. And I am, said Magdalen bitterly. Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance. I shall put the gown on your back, and the sense in your head.

Tüm ahlaki niteliklerin içinde en kolay çürümeye uÄŸrayan? ''vicdanl?l?k'' denilen niteliktir. Ä°nsan?n ruh hâline baÄŸl? olarak vicdan?, kimi zaman ona ceza kesebilecek en sert yarg?ç olur. Kimi zamansa rahatl?kla suç ortaklar? s?fat?yla hareket edebilen bu ikilinin aras?ndan su s?zmaz.

What right had I to decide, in my poor mortal ignorance of the future, that this man, too, must escape with impunity because he escaped ME?

Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.

The experience of the past leaves little doubt that every economic system must sooner or later rely upon some form of the profit motive to stir individuals and groups to productivity. Substitutes like slavery, police supervision, or ideological enthusiasm prove too unproductive, too expensive, or too transient. Normally and generally men are judged by their ability to produce—except in war, when they are ranked according to their ability to destroy.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar . . . . Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Bad and good are prejudices which the eternal reality cannot recognize;

An ancient critic spoke of him as "moderate to excess.

One must pay a penalty for having a prejudice against obscurity.

Works like this are as a mirror: if an ass looks in you cannot expect an angel to look out";

No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for these are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.

We typically have a bias that tells us we are less susceptible to bias than everyone else.

Kincaid, there's a reason why stereotypes become stereotypes. It's because they're true. - Harold Sacks