Quotes About Judgment

I tried to talk about National Geographic one night, and Jason gave me a look like I was insulting him, so I moved on to a safer subject: which of the girls have implants.

If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.

There are a lot of hopes riding on you. But there is a lot of prejudice against you too.

his size drew attention from everyone who happened to glance downwards. But Mulch quickly discovered that Mud People could find a reason to distrust almost anyone. Height, weight, skin colour, religion. It was almost safer to be different in some way.

Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?

The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish.

No te dejes apartar de tu deber por cualquier reflexión vana que de ti pueda hacer el mundo necio, porque en tu poder no están sus censuras, y, por consiguiente, no deben importarte nada

Si alguien te hiciere saber que un inviduo habla mal de ti, no te defiendas, ni refutes lo que haya dicho, sino que responde: «Aquel que ha dicho aquello de mí, ignora sin duda otros defectos, de lo contrario no habría dicho sólo estos.»

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness

These reasonings are unconnected: I am richer than you, therefore I am better; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better. The connection is rather this: I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours; I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours. But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

These reasonings do not cohere: I am richer than you, therefore I am better than you; I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better than you. On the contrary these rather cohere, I am richer than you, therefore my possessions are greater than yours: I am more eloquent than you, therefore my speech is superior to yours. But you are neither possession nor speech.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinion about the things.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?

If a man has reported to you, that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you: but reply, The man did not know the rest of my faults, for he would not have mentioned these only.

Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things:

It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for, if you don't act right, shun the action itself; but, if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure you wrongly?

What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgements about these things.

It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.

Does anyone bathe hastily? Do not say that they do it ill, but hastily. Does anyone drink much wine? Do not say that they do ill, but that they drink a great deal. For unless you perfectly understand their motives, how should you know if they act ill? Thus you will not risk yielding to any appearances except those you fully comprehend.