Quotes About Judgment

I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

We feel that if someone is bad, he should be burdened with the knowledge that he is bad. It seems to us the ultimate injustice that a person could be evil, by our assessment , and still feel fine about himself.

said, "The humans think I'm an asshole, wait till they get to know you." I thought you weren't speaking to me.

And even to me, that sounded like a stupid thing to do.

Their expressions gave Moon the impression that was he was being watched with disapproval, but he felt like that a lot, so it was probably just him.

I'm apparently an idiot, but not that big an idiot.)

If I was wrong, I'd probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.

How can you judge something fairly when you don't know what the rules are? You can't play God, because you aren't God.

Judging a man is easy. Compassion is hard.

acid has no implicit moral direction.

Often what we may consider to be sins against ourselves are actually sins against God. For instance, when we condemn ourselves we are playing god. When we worry and fret we are not trusting Him - and that is sinning against God, not against ourselves. Therefore, those are sins against God for Him to forgive.

Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might think of us. But there's more to it than that. We are terrified of what they might do with the knowledge.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

Most programmers, even experienced ones, are poor judges of how code actually performs.

Even so the program works. Is this not just an aesthetic judgment, a dislike of ugly code?

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

You make me sick! You are offered meat and you choose a banana-split-with-nuts.

The inventor of soda crackers has a place in hell.

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.

On J-Day our profession will have a lot to answer for! We might at least have withheld our hands instead of making them work against God.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Some people are so smart that they're dumb about the most important things.

But gradually we learn something very precious under the tutelage of these wounds. We learn a compassion for others that replaces judging, self-loathing, and the compulsion to find someone to blame. We learn a reverent joy before our wounds that replaces the condemnation of and comparison of ourselves with others that used to fuel our anxiety. We learn that the consummation of self-esteem is self-forgetful abandonment to the Silence of God that gives birth to loving service of all who struggle.