Quotes About Judgment

keep this one thing at the front of your mind: subjective judgments are inherently vulnerable to all sorts of biases.

But Nadja was poor, which in our time is enough to condemn her, once she decided not to behave entirely according to the imbecile code of good sense and good manners.

O que devo fazer?'' e não: ''O que os outros devem fazer?'' É o que distingue a moral do moralismo.

Juger c'est, de toute évidence ne pas comprendre puisque, si l'on comprenait, on ne pourrait pas juger.

People judge what they do not understand

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

Vienas piktas sakinys, perpasakotas nepalankiai, pagimdo baisiausi? prieš?. "Jei sužinotume, k? apie mus kiti kalba, niekas su niekuo nesikalb?t?." Nelaim?, anks?iau ar v?liau mes vis tiek sužinome tai, k? kiti kalba apie mus.

You know everything you need to know about people when you see their faces at the moments of your greatest triumph.

It's easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision just like that. that's all you ever have to do. i live by this." "But what if you don't know the difference between a benefit and a cost? what if you've never been very good at telling a plus from a minus?

To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice.

Never judge a man until you walk a mile in his shoes. That way, you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

To be honest, she may be kind of scared of the register. Or maybe she can't add. She is a Christian. I don't think they believe in math.

Die meisten Menschen sind es ja nicht gewöhnt, sich wirklich selber ein Urteil zu bilden; es reicht ihnen vollkommen, wenn sie das von sich glauben können, während sie in Wirklichkeit Gedanken nachplappern, die sie irgendwo aufgeschnappt haben.

Im Grunde, erkannte sie, stimmt es gar nicht, dass man als Mensch freie Entscheidungen trifft. Wenn es um wichtige Dinge geht, dann wählt man nicht "frei", sondern man wählt die Option, die man für die bessere hält - und das Problem ist, dass man das meistens nicht weiß. Also entscheidet man eigentlich nicht, sondern man rät, und das mit mehr oder weniger Glück.

This concludes the story of my youth, Your Honor. I hope that you can see that I have been swayed since my birth by forces that are poorly countered with reason.

Two thoughts went through my head as I read this: First, that Perlentaucher would never have added a remark like this about any other country on Earth: not North Korea, nor Saudi Arabia, Germany, nor even Israel,

the wisdom of his administration in

Aha. The mom doesn't know. She's fishing. This next part has to be just right, or I'm blacklisted by the mother and hated by the daughter. The first would be an inconvenience; the second would be a tragedy.

Truth is, Dad, I don't blame Judge Parker," he said quietly. "I mouthed off pretty bad in court. He could've given me sixty days in jail, or even ninety. I've got no gripe with him. It was my own fault—all of it.

It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.

When I answered that I did not pray, he sternly rebuked me. "You're in Hell. You'd better start".

He recoils at the sight of me. Are they suppose to do that?