Quotes About Judgment

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.

Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!

Without knowledge you cannot choose wisely. And without wise choice, there is no freedom.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Because it is such a powerful force in the world today, the Western Judeo-Christian tradition is often accepted as the arbiter of 'natural' behavior of humans. If Europeans and their descendant nations of North America accept something as normal, then anything different is seen as abnormal. Such a view ignores the great diversity of human experience.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

Bücher erschaffen kannst du noch nicht", sagte der Schattenkönig, "aber umbringen kannst du sie schon. Bist du sicher, daß du nicht lieber Kritiker werden möchtest?

Beurteile niemals ein Buch nach dem Umschlag!

Beurteile ein Buch nicht nach seinem Umschlag!

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.

This escapade taught me a lesson," Nimitz later recalled, "to look with lenient and tolerant eye on first offenders when in later years they appeared before me as a Commanding Officer holding Mast."8

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.

Premisa liberadora IX. Someterte al "qué dirán" es una forma de esclavitud socialmente aceptada

Como ya dije antes, cuando una mente rígida establece un juicio acerca de alguien o algo permanece anclada o apegada a él de manera obstinada, sin realizar ajustes sustanciales, aunque la experiencia le demuestre lo contrario.

Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará como "inmaduros" o "inestables", como si "no cambiar de rumbo" fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

La prudencia es futuro, prevención, anticipación responsable, deseo razonado. Está diseñada para evaluar el antes de, para que no tengamos que arrepentirnos del después de. No es un freno de emergencia asfixiante, sino autorregulación, juicio y lucidez orientada a no lastimar ni lastimarse. Kant decía: "La prudencia aconseja, la moral ordena". Una asertividad sin prudencia tarde o temprano se transforma en agresión.

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Cuando cambiamos la ruta convencional por una más atrevida y ensayamos caminos nuevos, la gente rígida y pegada a las normas nos rotulará de inmaduros o "inestables", como si no cambiar de rumbo fuera sinónimo de inteligencia.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.