Quotes About Judgment

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to prove that you can't judge a book by its cover.

I had to prove myself to a lot of different people.

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

You can't prove somebody is a racist unless they really come out and do the act and is found to be that.

It's easy to buy. Prove that you bought at the right time and the right price.

I have to prove myself to everybody.

I'm not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don't really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That's why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.

It's a rule of 'Deadhead-dom' to claim to hate Donna Godchaux and always say, 'Phil makes the band,' though I think that pronouncement was proved inaccurate after Jerry died.

As a studio executive, I took the approach that people are competent until proven otherwise. But when you make a movie, because there is so little time to fix things when they break, you have to almost come to it with the mindset that everyone is incompetent until proven otherwise.

I understand too well the dreadful act I'm going to commit, but my judgement can't check my anger, and that incites the greatest evils human beings do.

Since I am wise, some people envy me, some think I'm idle, some the opposite, and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.

The wisest men follow their own direction And listen to no prophet guiding them. None but the fools believe in oracles, Forsaking their own judgment.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

O Zeus, why did you give men certain ways to recognize false gold, when there's no mark, no token on the human body, to indicate which men are worthless.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?

There is no justice in the world's censorious eyes. They will not wait to learn a man's true character; Though no wrong has been done them, one look - and they hate. - Medea

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

CRE. There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.

And this is a grief beyond the reality, if a man incurs blame for sins that are not his.

A prudent scepticism is the most profitable quality a man can have.