Quotes About Judgment

It was as their lady, dealer of wyrd and woe, that she judged the miserable bandits they chased down, the children, women, and men hauled cowering in groups of bramble thickets, hiding in twos in an overstood coppice, or sniveling along in a half-eaten bud in the lee of a rock.

I have a strange kind of face; people trust me. More than that, they see in my face what they want to be there.

A woman should judge priests for herself, as she would any other man. When they make demands you think unfair, speak to the king's man at Caer Larat.

Sinner, his mouth said, doomed sinner and no more my rival.

I think she knows she's made a terrible, irreversible mistake, but she can't stop because if she did, she'd have to acknowledge the mistake and the fact that people really don't care. They just think she's a freak.

Hild understood and suspended judgment, as she had learnt to do in her strange position as the light of the world in a maid's clothes. And yet she was ten, only ten, her heft only that of her gaze and words and bearing, especially on days like this when she had set out in her plainest short cyrtel and hose and left all her fine stuff safe and dry in Begu's room.

When I saw her come in that night with you, I said to myself, Now there's a handful, because I thought she'd be snooty, you see. It was the way she carried her head.

You couldn't see her good points for her bad. Ah, now your face is closing up. I haven't seen that face in a while. No doubt you're thinking, He doesn't know the half of it and I'm not going to ruin his image of his fiancée by telling him. Tell me, did she try to seduce you? Yes, I thought so. She tried it with all my other friends who didn't like her." "I-" "Oh, I know, you turned her down.

To demand that the intelligence abstain from judging mutilates its faculty of understanding. It is in the value judgment that understanding culminates.

Un diploma de dentista es respetable, pero uno de filósofo es grotesco.

Zichzelf veroordelen is niet minder pretentieus dan zichzelf vergeven.

De goede smaak die is aangeleerd is erger dan de slechte smaak die men van nature heeft.

The psychological mechanism of the individual "without prejudices" lacks interest.

Der Demokrat erstarrt, wenn er von der ungewöhnlichen Koalition Kenntnis erhält, die ihn bedroht, wenn er entdeckt, daß die Klassik des Sophokles sich mit der Romantik Kierkegaards verbündet hat, um ihn zu verurteilen. Wenn er bei diesem Unterfangen den bischöflichen Pomp Bossuets mit dem dionysischen Atheismus Nietzsches paktieren sieht.

Der Demokrat erstarrt, wenn er von ungewöhnlichen Koalition Kenntnis erhält, die ihn bedroht, wenn er entdeckt, daß die Klassik des Sophokles sich mit Romantik Kierkgaards verbündet hat, um ihn zu verurteilen. Wenn er bei diesen Unterfangen den bischöflichen Pomp Bosseut mit den dionysischen Atheismus Nietzsches paktieren sieht.

El gusto no se deshonra con lo que le plazca o deteste, sino con lo que erróneamente equipare.

Eugenics appals those who fear its judgment.

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are will-dressed fools.

Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss. The wiser the man, the longer the list.

When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.