Quotes About Judgment

I don't see how people go on living as stupid as some of them are.

Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.

I think Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Cynics criticize, and winners analyze" was another of his favorite sayings. Rich

The inner voice we sometimes hear shaming us is not that of the witness, which is indifferent to our ups and downs. Self-accusation is rather the result of internalizing others' judgments.

That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting inevitable.

Buddha believed that the less you judge things—including the contents of your mind—the more clearly you'll see them, and the less deluded you'll be.

As Kurzban has summarized this finding, "We think we're better than average at not being biased in thinking that we're better than average.

father was ashamed of the baby and left him with his mother.

Hay títulos que uno ha evitado durante años y años, viéndolos reaparecer cada tanto. Llega un día en que, sin una razón aparente, nos aventuramos a comprar el libro. Finalmente uno lo abre y descubre que es del todo distinto de lo que habíamos pensado. O bien se constata que es como si ya lo hubiéramos leído -y entonces las razones para evitarlo eran incuestionablemente sólidas.

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

To know all is to despise all.

Ah, critics! How unforgiving they are toward anything that isn't, in some special way, known only to them, absolutely first-rate. Do they ever guess, I wonder, how much energy and guts and sheer talent it takes to be second-rate?

I was a talking lover, which most women hate.

You remember the little poem by Ibsen that I quoted to you during one of our early meetings? MYSELF: Only vaguely. Something about self-judgement. DR. VON HALLER: No, no; self-judgement comes later. Now pay attention, please: To live is to battle with trolls in the vaults of heart and brain. To write: that is to sit in judgement over one's self.

What would you do if you were me? said Solly. What would I do in your place? No, no; you'd do something fantastic and get farther into the soup. I want to know what you would do if you were intelligent but prudent. What would you do if you were me?

California sluts. The fact

I've been getting some crap from the rest of the ER staff," Thomas said. "They think I'm interested in the case because the patient is a piece of ass.

My child, never judge a man because of his race. Never. God looks at the heart. So should we. We are all made in God's image.

he followed me with his eyes as if I wore a black hood and carried an axe, and he was next in line.

What if the wrong person showed up first and said you were expecting them?' I said. 'I told them middling tall, skinny, weird-looking hair because it will have just been let out of being tied up in a scarf for working in a restaurant and you never comb it, wearing a fierce look,' said Pat. 'I was pretty safe.' 'Fierce?' I said. I also thought, Skinny?, but I have my pride. The part about my hair is true.

Or that Ayn Rand and Jesus are truly strange bedfellows? Why can't we say this? Because we are afraid. Why are we afraid? Because we care too much about what people think of us, and not enough about whether we say what needs to be said at a time like this.

Physical bravery is essential in second lieutenants but dangerous in general officers. They should learn caution and judgement as they rise through the ranks; a general needs moral courage, not least the courage to make a hard decision and stick to it under pressure from his superiors and events.