Quotes About Judgment

The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities that make it precious and by indicating the angle of visions from which its beauties are visible. But many critics do not realize their function. They aim not to appreciate, but to judge; they seek first to draw lines about literature and then bully readers into accepting these laws.

We are happy in proportion as we believe ourselves and our life to be of value; and few people are so disinterested or so conceited as to trust wholly to their own judgment in this matter.

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.

systems of government are to be judged not for their prophetic ability to choose and install good leaders and policies, but for their ability to remove bad ones that are already there.

For the French, talent excuses much, genius excuses all, and prudishness is inexcusable.

A good officer can get away with being wrong, but he can't be indecisive.

If we could be participants in, rather than creators of, our lives, we'd let go of most of the judgements, critiques, fears, and doubts that keep us from loving life.

To have hope is to judge the present as inadequate while holding the audacity that an unrealized future will somehow improve upon the present.

I write not for sensation, but for Truth. I leave judgement to the hearts of my good Readers everywhere.

Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?' 'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?' 'An oxymormon.

Greta must have noticed his discomfort, because she reached out and held Einar's cheeks and said, "It means nothing." And then, "When will you stop worrying about what other people think?

You'll argue he was just Putting into practice The philosophy of eye for eye. Say what you will. I don't mind: But now we know Why Justice is blind.

In order to build a good reputation, you have to view your own actions in the same way that the people judging you will view them.

God's holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

Why do people feel the need to put labels on people?

Gibt es ihn, diesen Kamikaze-Mann, der eine Frau aufhalten würde, um ihr an den Kopf zu werfen: »Wie können Sie nur solche Schuhe tragen? Sie pferchen Ihre Zehen wie in einem Gulag zusammen. Sie sind der Stalin Ihrer Füße, eine Schande ist das!« Wer wäre zu so etwas fähig?

Definition of the Word Delicate, Since Defining Delicacy Isn't Enough for Understanding Delicacy 1. Subtle and subdued. A delicate flavor. 2. Showing fragility. Delicate crystal. 3. Requiring sensitive or careful handling. Delicate situation. 4. Characterized by subtle judgment, deftness. Delicate chess maneuvers.

Hoy en día vivimos sometidos a la dictadura de la felicidad de los demás. O más bien de la presunta felicidad…

mais leurs avis, au fond, je m'en fous, je ne juge pas leurs choix, alors il faut me laisser libre maintenant, libre de tenter d'être heureuse.

On ne sait jamais que manger ; faire un choix, c'es anéantir tous les autres.

Hay que desconfiar de los tipos que te meten la nariz en la boca.

Do something untoward and there is a good chance that it might be observed, recorded and, given time, judged.

The things that bother us most about others—our pet peeves—also point toward falsity in our own self. The speck that bothers me in the life of someone else is almost always the log in my own eye (Matthew 7:3).