Quotes About Judgment

Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

Tous les Hommes sont sales d'une manière ou d'une autre. Seulement, il y a ceux qu'un simple verre d'eau suffit à laver, et ceux que tous les océans de la terre ne sauraient purifier.

the Irish priests sometimes considered their French-Canadian counterparts primitives.)

When you say 'This is a bad thing that's happening,' how often are you wrong?

Isn't it curious how, very occasionally, we have a strong and inexplicable feeling about a complete stranger? Most of the time, someone we don't know is just someone we don't know. Perhaps we form an impression of them on account of how they dress, speak, or move. We usually have no expectation, no feeling—good or bad—when we first encounter a new person.

When we make judgements about things based on appearance, instead of on what really matters, we get into trouble.

learned late in life to obey my wife's commands without question, but even though I learned I only do it intermittently. I live in terror of her judgments but I rarely take the next step of following her instructions. In my consciousness my wife is a brooding, metaphysical omnipresence who has saved my life.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

She could see the words Calvin Klein against the brown hair on the small of his back and it occurred to her that this was probably not at all what Calvin Klein had in mind.

Who me? God, no, I'm terrible . . . " Then, just as an experiment, I say, "And, besides, I don't think I'm good-looking enough to be an actor." Oh, that's not true! There are lots of actors who aren't good-looking . . .

And it's true, I have a perfectly fine face, eyes that may well be 'kind' but are also the brownest of browns, a reasonable-sized nose and the kind of smile that causes photographs to be thrown away.

by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions…which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

Through a long life, Franklin had been forced by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions . . . which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.

I don't like it when really smart people do things that seem dumb. Makes me think I'm figuring something wrong.

Any fool can write a bad advertisement, but it takes a genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Remember the French saying: 'He who is absent is always wrong.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." —John Wayne

You can tell a man's character from his choices

If any human beings find themselves in hell, they will have no one but themselves to blame. If any find themselves in heaven, they will have no one but the Lord to praise.

They love me for what I'm not. They hate me for what I am.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.

Though there is no evil in righteousness, there is in self-righteousness

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand