Quotes About Judgment

Those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. It is only through literature that one can put oneself in someone else's shoes and understand the other's different and contradictory sides and refrain from becoming too ruthless.

I'd met my share of highly credentialed, high-IQ morons

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose.

How could we judge other men until we had stood in their shoes? This

Look at yourself before you pass judgment. Don't make someone else clean up your mess.

They spend half they lives worrying about what white folks think.

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

caution dressed up as wisdom.

I was discovering, the difficulty of competing in a game where there were no clearly defined rules, a game in which your opponents are not merely trying to put a ball through a basket or push it across your goal line, but are instead trying to convince the broad public—at least implicitly, more often explicitly—that in matters of judgment, intelligence, values, and character, they are more worthy than you.

there is a certain liberation that comes from realizing that no matter what you do, someone will be angry at you

It just gets old, you know? Always defending your choices. No one ever imagines your reasons might be well thought out, that it might actually be the least selfish choice you'll ever make. Not all of us believe our lives are meaningless unless we reproduce.

Sometimes you get a feeling about someone the minute you meet them. You just know who they are, and what they're all about.

We do not look into mirrors, for example, to see our true selves, but to see what others are seeing, and what passes for inner reflection is often an agonizing assessment of how others are judging us.

Al final, la felicidad se mide a partir de la satisfacción que una persona declara sentir sobre su propia vida, y quizá sea más sencillo estar satisfecho con ella si uno tiene dinero, se ciñe a las normas sociales, acomoda sus juicios a lo que diga la iglesia y no se preocupa demasiado por las injusticias.

If a woman dare to cure without having studied she is a witch and must die.

You don't need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments.

Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

This is what I would say if I could, to all smart people of the world with their dumb hillbilly jokes: We are right here in the stall. We can actually hear you.

Feminine' was a test like some witch trial she was preordained to fail.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

You know reviewers, they are the wind in their own sails.

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.