Quotes About Judgment

I just used my Bible to smash a bug on my desk. That's bad, isn't it?) The

Moral judgements are singularly out of place in espionage. —Graham Greene

Workmanship is the application of technique to making, by the exercise of care, judgment, and dexterity.

but our self with a small "s" actually enjoys an impoverished life and all the negativity that goes with it: feeling unworthy, being invalidated, judging others and ourselves, being inflated, always "winning" and being "right," grieving the past, fearing the future, nursing our wounds, craving assurance, and seeking love instead of giving it.

The mind would like us to think that there is such a thing as "justifiable anger," which takes the form of moralistic indignation. If we look at moralistic indignation, we will see that it is propped up by vanity and pride. We like to think how right we are in a situation and how "wrong" the other persons are.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. – Alexander Pope

I will stipulate to having both French sea salt and a big bottle of extra virgin in my kitchen. And while the presence of both might go some small distance in pigeonholing me demographically, neither one of them makes me a good person. They are mute and useless indicators of the content of my character.

she also tended to see strangers not as individuals but as representatives of types. It was as though people did not walk around in the world as themselves, but as examples of kinds of people, the majority of whom they had never met.

Jerseys were for people who were afraid to milk Holsteins and too ashamed to milk goats.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

Again you play with my people, resist sending them. Listen: tomorrow at this time a hard hailstorm falls, as has never been in Egypt, not from the day of its founding. Send out your word: the cattle, all that belongs to you in the field, all man and beast not in houses—if not brought into your house they will die as the hail falls.

in California everyone wants to know what kind of car you drive. In the South it's which church you attend. And here it's what kind of dog you have.

The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn...?

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

if one is to rely on human judges, it is very important that they never admit to error.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

Statistics are information, not condemnation.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

Some people may opt out. Their child turns out to be whatever it is that they find impossible to face—for some, the wrong religion; for some, the wrong sexuality; for some, a drug addict. They close the door. Click. Like in mafia movies: "I have no son. He is dead to me." I have a son and he will never be dead to me.