Quotes About Judgment

Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

All comparison is based on memory, and memory is an image based on engrams. It follows that all judgement, evaluation, is an interpretation of images, for even the present is already a memory by the time we have seized it. Therefore the unending process of finding things "good" or "not so good" is a work of imagination. Would in not be futile indeed to suppose that such judgments, that is any and all judgments, could have any absolute existence or value?

Bareheaded. No cap. Instead of crisp whites, a peasant blouse. "You're not a nurse.

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fools.

Three things it is best to avoid a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

Who would not prefer animals to these people who prefer animals to people?

Some porn users tell us they feel too ashamed to go to church or express their spirituality in the ways that were once meaningful to them.

Me – accused of being too nice. It boggles the mind.

My father plowed under our fields to make the landing space for his helicopter. Jenna's father thinks my father is lazy since he only flies three times a week and is back by dinnertime. My father thinks Jenna's father should mind his own business.

Hopelessness is seeing someone else who has been there for eight months and hasn't been asked a single question and is just begging to be convicted and executed already.

We have more than enough people to remind us of that, to give us dispassionate evaluations of our mediocrity.

Tenemos tantas ganas de odiar a alguien, de asignarle una culpa e imponerle un castigo, que lo vemos a la peor luz posible, y le imponemos los peores rasgos.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. . . . If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. —EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY

When you can sit down and produce a four-hundred-page manuscript that can transport a reader somewhere else for a spell, maybe I'll allow you to criticize.

ladies' clothing aisle—strategically located just past the automotive section—where Avery and Madeline selected some of the ugliest shorts and T-shirts Nicole had ever seen.

The rest of their authors were thrown out there, much like shit flung at a wall, while the publisher waited to see who "stuck," or so it seemed to Kendall.

One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.

Freedom of expression does not judge its own opinion."

Self-esteem does not judge conscience because it is not responsible for right and wrong."

The conscience that only thinks about appearance does not suffer the consequence."

They will always judge you for what they don't know how to do.