Quotes About Judgment

Perhaps he doesn't mind it," said Mr. Camperdown to himself, "but I wouldn't marry such a woman myself, though she owned all Scotland.

As yet, he was barely thirty, and had he been able to judge his own case as keenly as he could have judged the case of another, he would have known that a short absence might probably raise his value in the estimation of others rather than lower it. But his personal annoyance was too great to allow of his making such calculations aright.

CHAPTER XXXVIII 'YOU ARE SO SEVERE

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

I shall have charity enough to believe that they are wrong, through error of judgment; but should I see him attacked by those who ought to know him, and to love him, and revere him, of such I shall be constrained to form a different opinion.

You can run down a demi-god only by making him out to be a demi-devil.  These

As to her honour, it is as bright as when her peerless form first glanced before my eyes. The stolen diamond does not lose its lustre; nor has pollution touched her noble nature. Judgment alone has failed her; she has missed her way in darkness, led by false lights astray — the will o' the wisp and flashing, wandering meteors, which catch the unwary eye.

But death wipes out many faults, and a self-inflicted death caused by remorse will, in the minds of many, wash a blackamoor almost white.

If I were to die, your friends would advise you not to grieve; but they would think you very unfeeling if you did not.

It is so easy to condemn — and so pleasant too, for eulogy charms no listeners as detraction does.

Wise people, when they are in the wrong, always put themselves right by finding fault with the people against whom they have sinned.

you may be sure of one thing; I shall always judge my father to be right, and those who oppose him I shall judge to be wrong. If those who do not know him oppose him, I shall have charity enough to believe that they are wrong, through error of judgment; but should I see him attacked by those who ought to know him, and to love him, and revere him, of such I shall be constrained to form a different opinion." And

But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antics which he may play in his solitary hours. Those who act generally with the most consummate wisdom in the affairs of the world, often meditate very silly doings before their wiser resolutions form themselves.

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.

the triad of human perfection": knowledge, judgment, and character.

All too often guilt was a matter of timing. Y. S., who ran away when her village was bombed, was sentenced to six months' labour camp 'for deserting her place of work', while A. S., who refused to leave her home when the Germans were approaching, was condemned in absentia as a 'traitor to the Motherland'. A minimum of ten years in a Gulag labour camp awaited her.

She could probably kill Jaydra, and the other woman would manage to come back from the dead to critique her technique.

Which brings us back to your question, Tom. In your prior job, when you were thinking that your old boss was a real jerk, were you trying to help him, or was this judgment of him really a way of just helping yourself?

your view of her more like my view of the people on the plane or more like the view of the woman I told you about?

Let's say that after I got in the box, I saw someone who knew me, and then out of shame, not wanting to appear insensitive, I turned and helped Mordechai gather his coins, all the while fuming that I was being made to do it. In that case, would I have been seeing him as a person while I was helping?

from - Your Life is Worth Living: If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

Female Chauvinist Pigs don't bother to question the criteria on which women are judged, they are too busy judging other women themselves

When I hear that someone has lung cancer, did he smoke? comes into my head midway between the syllables can and cer. Obviously I don't say it out loud, but I want to know, because I want to believe that if only my loved ones and I refrain from smoking, we will be ineligible for lung cancer (and, ideally, every other kind of cancer).