Quotes About Judgment

No one is going to look at the good things you do. Everybody is going to watch the bad things and that is how it is.

People always catch you on mistakes and they don't look at the good things you do.

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.

People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

Furless now, upright, My banished and experimental child You said, though your own heart condemn you I do not condemn you.

Lui, il n'avait jamais vu ce que les autres trouvaient de bien à son visage. Trop maigre, trop tordu, pas assez pur à son goût. En aucune façon il ne serait tombé amoureux d'un type dans son genre. Mais les autres, oui, souvent.

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

Yes, take your times seriously. Yes, know that you are judged by the terrible sins of your times. Yes, you do well to faint with fear and foreboding at what is coming on the world. And yet rejoice. Rejoice. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety. Pray.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.

To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty.

A pillar of trash once affirmed of itself (unwittingly) and others I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience, most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena