Quotes About Judgment

Life had become a series of vanishing photographs, posted every day, gone the next. One had no story anymore. Character, narrative, history, were all dead. Only the flat caricature of the instant remained, and that was what one was judged by.

When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives—about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.

In those circumstances where we deem it obviously necessary to lie, we have generally determined that the person to be deceived is both dangerous and unreachable by any recourse to the truth. In other words, we have judged the prospects of establishing a genuine relationship with him to be nonexistent.

there is almost nothing more common than the belief that one is above average in intelligence, wisdom, honesty, etc.

To point out nonepistemic motives in another's view of the world, therefore, is always a criticism, as it serves to cast doubt upon a person's connection to the world as it is.

God cannot be judged by human standards of morality. But we have seen that human standards of morality are precisely what you use to establish God's goodness in the first place. And any God who could concern Himself with something as trivial as gay marriage, or the name by which He is addressed in prayer, is not as inscrutable as all that. There

Ethical transgressions are generally divided into two categories: the bad things we do (acts of commission) and the good things we fail to do (acts of omission). We tend to judge the former far more harshly. The origin of this imbalance remains a mystery, but it surely relates to the value we place on a person's energy and intent.

Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect to notice the irredeemably sectarian truth claims of each. As long as a Christian believes that only his baptized brethren will be saved on the Day of Judgment, he cannot possibly respect the beliefs of others, for he knows that the flames of hell have been stoked by these very ideas and await their adherents even now.

Chalmers: It's awfully hard to define consciousness. But I'd start by saying that it's the subjective experience of the mind and the world. It's basically what it feels like, from the first-person point of view, to be thinking and perceiving and judging.

invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry.

Wherever there are right and wrong answers to important questions, there will be better or worse ways to get those answers and better or worse ways to put them to use.

Any person who lies awake at night worrying about the private pleasures of other consenting adults has more than just too much time on his hands; he has some unjustifiable beliefs about the nature of right and wrong.

Professional competitions are overrated.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.