Quotes About Judgment

The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

Don't Judge People by Their Outfit...Judge by Outcome...

Everything I write is sinful, full of lies, especially the big one, the one you go to hell for: pretending not to be a fool.

They are afraid to read out loud, fearful of being thought stupid or foolish or — what? I ask them. Girlish? Boring, says one Megan. (Which Megan? I can't remember.) This is a terrible fear, I know — this fear of not being interesting — of being trivial, not special. It is almost as great, I think, as their fear of standing out and being special.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

consideres, quid tuae rationes postulent.

if you find something or somebody a bore, the fault lies in you.

I find it easy to spot a depressive. The illness is scrawled across them like graffiti.

it is easy for parents to pass on unnecessary guilt, shame, and insecurity to their children because we fear the rejection of critical and judgmental people in our lives. So if I can help other parents understand the profound importance of accepting children as they are, perhaps I can save those children from some of the anguish I felt for many years.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations. You don't have to do this verbally. You can also judge another person in your hand, comparing his or her behavior to what you would do, usually in a way that shows you to be superior.

Another judgment pitfall you may encounter when trying to change a behavior is unconsciously expecting that others will change along with you.

women are most likely to be evaluated based on their contributions, while men are most likely to be evaluated based on their potential—nebulous criteria that can result in a less qualified

Passing judgment means feeling the need to impose your standards on others, as if their job were to live up to your expectations.

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.

We live kind of society where people scold you for wearing crop clothes. But for their own pleasure and entertainment this society tears your clothes apart to see your naked body. Even the society forces you to strip down your clothes for their hidden satisfaction. But in front of all they just say you are so nasty.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

The reader is the final arbiter.

It was soon painfully clear that when he looked at me what he mainly saw was a cute animal, clownish and a little stupid, something like a very small dog with buckteeth. He had no inkling of my true character, that I was in fact grossly cynical, moderately vicious, and a melancholy genius, or that I had read more books than he had.

One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32