Quotes About Judgment

Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.

In order to avoid her death, her particular death, with wrung neck and swollen tongue, she must marry the hangman.

I was just telling the truth, but people always seem to think you're stark, staring mad when you do that.

Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

Because they don't know [the anger is] there inside them. [...] They think they are sweet reasonableness, and it's you that's in the wrong, just by being, and not being like them, or looking like them, or wanting their kind of life.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

In Athol Fugard's play, The Island, an African eats an orange whole; at the play's opening night in London, the audience sat coolly through the nude scenes on stage, but there were gasps of horror at the sight of a man enjoying a whole unpeeled orange.

I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.

If I am to be judged by those who come after me, let me be judged for the truth.

It's not differences that divide us. It's our judgments about each other that do.

Miss Huntingforest beamed at them. 'If you can eat cakes at eleven o'clock in the morning you're all right,' she said. 'It's an acid test, in my opinion. If a man can eat two cookies before noon and enjoy them there's not much wrong with him.

When Uncle Hubert spoke of a fellow human being as poor, he meant to convey that either by accident or intention they had done something wrong.

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive at the correct conclusion with the maximum of possible accuracy and the minimum of hard labor. Which being translated means: I guessed it.

However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be times -not many, I know, or we should have no judges- when the same frightful question must be answered. Not faced, you see, but answered. Every now and again he must have to say to himself, in effect, "Everyone agrees that this colour is black, and my reason tells me it is so, but on my soul, do I know?

What are true things, and what are not? What is good, and what is rubbish? Everything you encounter in life, everything you read, you have to use your own noggin.

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told.