Quotes About Judgment

It doesn't matter what other people think of you. What matters is what you think of yourself.

The very purpose of existence it to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think of us.

Cliff didn't know enough to write critical pieces for Films in Review, but he knew enough to know Hiroshima Mon Amour was a piece of crap. He knew enough to know Antonioni was a fraud.

Okay, Marvin thinks, that's the second time Rick has put down his Tanner co-star Michael Callan. That's not a good sign. It suggests stinginess in spirit. It suggests a blamer. But Marvin keeps these thoughts to himself.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish

To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

Impatience makes fools of clever men...

The greatest sin in the world is to say 'I love you' without realising that God snd his angels are listening and judging. If you do not feel their presence you are not in love. You have no right to be in love.

Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He

Pragmatism was a sword that cut through such knots; an action was to be judged by its consequences alone.

If I say, "You are wrong for judging people" then by my own standard I am wrong for judging you.

Judgment on Playhouse 90

We sin if we do not confront sin as sin.

Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

Be absolutely aware that you are self-righteous and that this is the root of your problem.

Heaven will be filled with people who realize throughout eternity they have no right to be there.

Saint Francis de Salle, not the real Saint Francis with the cute birds and animals, wrote that in his book Introduction to the Devout Life, which talked about how bad sex was in four large volumes. It earned Francis here a sainthood. All I can say is, I am glad I'm not Christian. For us Muslims, we just stone adulterers to death, which is much more humane than guilt.

Isn't a sensitive soul simply a means of transforming a deficiency into proud disdain?

The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.

All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit—the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

we've become convinced that if we say even a word out of place we've marked them forever, but of course that is ridiculous, and in any case, why should their lives be perfect? It is our own idea of perfection that plagues us, and it is rooted in our own desires.