Quotes About Judgment

Gamache wondered how low the bar was set when all a man had to do to attract a woman was not smell of decomposing bears.

His skin was pocked and ruddy, his nose large and misshapen, red and veined as though he'd snorted, and retained, Burgundy. His teeth protruded, yellowed and confused, heading this way and that in his mouth. His eyes were small and slightly crossed. A lazy eye, thought Gamache. What used to be known as an evil eye, in darker times when men like this found themselves at best cast out of polite society and at worst tied to a stake.

You're an artist," said Reine-Marie. "Do you think a work should be judged by its creator? Or should it stand on its own?

There was, or could be, outright danger. Believing a person capable of redemption when they'd proven they were not.

the essential goodness of people, it's failing to see it.

Gracie might, or might not, be a dog. The smart money was now on guinea pig, with hedgehog a close second.

Situational ethics?

No man is as bad as the worst thing he's done.

Oscar Wilde said there's no sin except stupidity.

Terrible things were discussed by confident people in public places.

No man is as bad as the worst thing he's done." "Why would he quote a death-row nun?" asked Joan.

They were looking really scared. They had probably seen her knees

A life is like a poem: Its content is inspired partly by unconscious feelings but also by mindful judgment.

Dr. Spiro seems to think I don't know how to behave in a mental institution.

John had said McKindless would be revealed through his library, but John was a bookseller; he formed his opinion of everyone through their books.

Just because you CAN sing doesn't mean you should.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

It is not unusual to make a single work the opportunity for passing definitive judgment upon an author. This is not our view of the duty of a critic. He is limited to the book before him, and all departures from it are impertinences.

Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

never judge anyone by their appearance, or the car they drive, or the house they live in, or even by the words they say. judge people by their actions. that's how you know whether they're bad or good." - perfect Summer

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.

If you have written a clever and conclusive but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all.