Quotes About Judgment

Know that you cannot help but judge. What you then do with your judgment is the choice." — Story Waters, author and spiritual teacher

confirmation bias means we look for and find evidence to support our beliefs. We cherry-pick information that confirms what we already know, while ignoring (consciously and unconsciously) information that challenges our existing beliefs.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare

Frankly, I don't see the advantage being gargantuan will get me, not when I have to run errands around people I know." "Yeah, that might be a problem. Scaring the mailman won't win you any favors around town." Caitlyn grinned. -Kelly & Caitlyn

Besides, when I look around me at the men, I feel that God never meant us women to be too particular.

Dorothy Parker once said: I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid." Upon delivering this Dot bon mot, with much waving of sparkly rings and jingly bracelets, Constance Langtry comments that she'd add a fourth: "Deft tongue. And I don't mean a good talker.

Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man

it is safer to wander without a guide through an unmapped country than to trust completely a map traced by men who came only as tourists and often with biased judgement.

A — Aware. Am I in Judger?

C — Choose. What's my choice?

When two people are in Judger, the one who wakes up first has an advantage. That person can choose to go Learner and turn the situation around for both of them.

It seems like people go into Judger whenever there's any kind of conflict,

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.

And the Lord said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing?…Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."(Genesis 18:17, 20–21)

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Judgement of others and ourselves always comes from a place of fear. It is fear that keeps us from living authentically all that we say we value.

Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.

The greatest prison where most people live is the fear of what other people think and say

Criticism of one's appearance hurts, no matter what.

You have to learn the difference between a man's looks, and how fine he shoots. They've never been one and the same.

Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.

Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.