Quotes About Judgment

The severe and at times almost condemning glance - a glance that seems to pass judgment - with which the homosexual appraises every good-looking young man he may encounter, is in reality a quick but intense meditation on his own loneliness

You know," Sybylla said warmly, "it isn't such a terrible thing to be incapable of open-mindedness. All of us are swayed by our experiences, and by prejudices. If the school bully who beat you up had red hair, then maybe there's a tiny part of you that resents people with red hair, even though you may know this to be irrational.

But there was an unfortunate complication, namely that her mother and father were Christians, and not the Jesus-is-love kind of Christians but the Hell-has-a-special-room-waiting-for-you kind.

Keeping silent blocks both judgment and change.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

A fact is first an answer to a question. If Sartre had consulted psychologists before judging them in the light of his own genius, he would have learned that they do not wait on the accident but begin by setting themselves problems.

He had been so friendly, and he had shown clearly that he did not think me in the least stupid--or, if he did, he liked it.

Extreme justice is often injustice.

Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable, Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable

You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.

He was trying to decide if she was pretty. If you had to think about it, he guessed the answer was no.

We all suffer from flawed thinking and decision making.

It is also difficult to define the boundaries within which we judge inequality.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Écouter, c'est d'abord une attitude. C'est chercher à comprendre l'autre avec ses souffrances, ses désirs et son espérance, sans le juger ni le condamner. Écouter, c'est mettre l'autre en valeur pour lui donner vie et l'aider à avoir confiance en lui...Quand je suis trop centré sur mes projets, quand j'ai besoin de me prouver, j'ai davantage du mal à écouter

Where do you think my new novel is? In the waste basket. I can see myself that it's no good on earth, and when a loving author realizes this, what would be the judgment of a critical public?

We Americans unjustly hold the French to a New World standard, the authors state. But they're no more New World than the Japanese.

No es posible mostrar a una mujer un hombre apuesto que llora sin que se diga 'Desde luego, yo le habría amado mejor

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

The cuter the boy, the mushier your brain.