Quotes About Judgment

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

If with evil You punish the evil I have done Pray tell, what is the difference between You and me?

Bana kötü deyip kötülük edeceksen, Ya Hüda, ne fark?n kal?r benden söyle.

If You punish with evil the evil I have done, tell, what is the difference between You and me?

And justice lies in appearance, at least in this world, at least in the eyes of the multitude.

After death there is either nothing or forgiveness.

Un homme sage s'estime responsable de ses actes et de leurs conséquences ; un homme dénué de sagesse ne se sent responsable que de ses intentions.

Hay mentiras de las que tienen más culpa los oídos que la boca.

Zaman müttefikimiz deÄŸil bizim, yarg?c?m?z.

It seems my life plagues a few people. They want to "know" how I got wherever they perceive I am. Why I would leave where they "thought" I was in the first place. But was I ever there, where they thunk? And where was they?

There can be no question of mistake or error raised before men who consider whatever they choose to do to be in itself the greatest of virtues.

Time is the best critic.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

Knowledge never guarantees perfect decisions, but it does reduce uncertainty, which makes better decisions more likely.

The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to believe that others behave badly because of their personality while we ourselves behave badly because of factors beyond our control. People often jump to blaming others while letting themselves off the hook. Drivers think that someone cutting them off must be a jerk rather than wondering if there's an emergency or some other reason requiring them to drive that way.

Court is a place where facts STILL matter

And why is Saint Paula a Saint? She dumps her four kids at a convent. She runs off to Hajira with Saint Jerome. How is that a saint? You've got shitty mothers all over America who would love to dump their kids and travel.

Your father says you're the smart one." "Not the pretty one," I said. I was mortified. "Oh, you can fake pretty," she said.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. —Naguib Mahfouz

Group identification can powerfully reinforce these conformity effects. In experiments similar to Asch's landmark study, subjects have been found to conform much more when presented with judgments said to come from members of an in-group, and much less when judgments are said to come from out-group members. And it's not just that people tend to think what their fellow tribe members think. They will do what their fellow tribe members do—even to the point of savagery.

When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

The other shoppers were too well behaved to stare at the green-headed stoner and the tear-streaked lady zigzagging up the aisles with a chubby bearded guy scurrying behind them picking up the things they dropped.