Quotes About Judgment

just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in the closet.

sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But, Mrs. Benson, stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that's something you might have to consider.

Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo.

Because of his aristocratic upbringing and friendly countenance, no one yet realized he was a master at reading people.

Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.

Most every new man who came into the neighborhood had to be tried.

Indeed, Constance. All lawyers are guilty. But this one, I think, is more guilty than most.

Criticism is a profession which allows one a certain license to be vicious outside the bounds of normal civilized behavior.

The minute the judge saw Jennie in her little blue suit with the big red bow, and saw her signing back and forth with the interpreter, he would never, ever, in a thousand years, find her a menace to society and order her destroyed. How could he? She was just like a little person!

many extremely well-organized people have illegible handwriting

Most people, in my experience, are a little thick. If not abundantly so.

Nearly two more years would pass before appellate Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellmann announced his verdict, declaring them innocent upon appeal—under Italian law an even more forceful verdict than not guilty because it means exoneration and an absence of any compelling evidence at all.

Do you know, I've always believed there's no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that's all.

When we see the world through our thoughts, we stop experiencing life as it really is and others as they really are. When I have a thought about you, that's something I've created. I've turned you into an idea. In a certain sense, if I have an idea about you that I believe, I've degraded you. I've made you into something very small. This is the way of human beings, this is what we do to each other.

When our minds start to open, we're no longer in a constant state of evaluation and judgment. Naturally, then, our senses open—and we can really see what is before us. Our eyes open in a different way, our hearing opens in a different way, our emotions open, our hearts open to all of existence. We see how judging and condemning actually close our hearts and harden us to our experience of life and others.

Meditation is neither a means to an end nor something to perfect. Meditation done correctly is an expression of Reality, not a path to it. Meditation done incorrectly is a perfect mirror of how you are resisting the present moment, judging it, or attaching to it.

What is required is the willingness to let life impact you; to let yourself see when life impacts you; to see if you go into any sort of separation about it, if you go into judgment, if you go into blame, if you go into "should" or "shouldn't," if you start to point the finger somewhere other than at yourself.

The Truth loves. It does not judge. It holds a big sword in its hands and can ruthlessly discern what is false and what is true, but it does not hold grudges. If you are not telling the truth to yourself, you will suffer. If it was not ruthless, there would be no learning. Truth doesn't spoon feed you.

Close the gap between what is and what you want it to be, between what is presenting itself and what you want to present itself. This gap of judgment is the separation you feel. You need to totally choose what is and lean into it with your whole being.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Fortune is for all, judgment is theirs who have won it for themselves.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

Look to it and consider, and deem not That ever stubbornness excels discretion.

The wisest of the wise may err.