Quotes About Judgment

Mi idea de alguien respetado consistía en una persona que había logrado engañar casi a la perfección a los demás pero que, al ser visto por un ser omnisciente e omnipotente, era humillado en una vergüenza peor que la muerte.

The likable weeds and the not likable weeds looked exactly the same but were somehow clearly divided into those that seemed innocuous and those that seemed horrible. It didn't stand to reason. What a girl likes and what she hates seems rather arbitrary to me.

When I acted like a rich man, they started a rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering.

Everyone kept saying that I was the ugliest boy in the family. And if they had known how fussy I was about clothes, they would surely have had a good laugh at my expense. I pretended not to care about my appearance, and this seemed to do the trick. I gave the impression of being dull and uncouth, no doubt about it. It was awful hearing them remark over and over how ugly I was.

The man even says that he who exalts himself shall be humbled and he who humbles himself shall be exalted. Does anyone in the real world get away with such cajolery? Deceiver! I only believe in happiness in this world. I'm not afraid of any judgment hereafter.

Even if their faces turn pale, what kind of proof would that be? And on the other hand if they laugh with no concern at all, that doesn't mean they're not guilty. We could of course judge the sharpness or dullness of their senses, but we can't judge their innocence.

I can forgive the evil in a human being, but I cannot pardon the foolishness in him. Stupidity is the greatest sin.

Lord Hamlet, maybe you alone are the evil one. You insert yourself where everyone is living peacefully and amicably, and you spout complex reasoning and attack everyone, making them suffer, saying that in this world only your love is pure and devoted.

The mother of that child is bad." Everything is the mother's fault.

Como ves, yo puedo ir y venir del fondo del mar a tierra firme cuando quiera, lo que me permite observar y comparar ambos modos de vida, y te aseguro que vuestra vida en tierra firme es agobiante. Hay demasiadas críticas de unos hacia otros. Las conversaciones de la gente que vive en tierra consisten o bien en hablar mal de los demás, o bien en hacer propaganda de las bondades de uno mismo. Acaba uno harto.

God or no god, there's no excuse thinking you're better than anyone else, judging others negatively because of your choice of faith.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

No pido tolerancia porque me parece una boludez. [...] La tolerancia es el prejuicio pero más light. Pedir tolerancia es aceptar que algo estás haciendo mal.

God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated His life along the line of the greatest use. God puts His saints where they will glorify Him, and we are no judge at all of where that is.

We imagine that a little anxiety and worry is an indication of how wise we really are; it may be an indication of how wicked we really are.