Quotes About Judgment

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

Employers know the nature of people best.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled.

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

A conviction is in the nature of a verdict and judgment, and therefore it must be precise and certain.

Nature is an unpleasing, stupid, lumpy, blowsy wench.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

We judge us by our names.

It's easy to count other people's mistakes. Make your own if you can.

The world is unbearably ugly when beauty is judged purely by what is seen on the outside.

Look at 'em, ' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.

at first sight everyone seems like human.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order

we're all a grab bag of good and eveil, and by and large can't tell which is which

Human beings tend to be unable to estimate how biased they are.

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'