Quotes About Judgment

O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Passion paralyzes good taste.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning - that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.

One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: the heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment . . . and I don't believe it's true. . . . I have the impression that thinking is a form of feeling and that feeling is a form of thinking.

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE, in a letter

No está mal ser bella lo que está mal es la obligación de serlo.

But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.

Serious fiction writers think about moral problems practically. They tell stories. They narrate. They evoke our common humanity in narratives with which we can identify, even though the lives may be remote from our own. They stimulate our imagination. The stories they tell enlarge and complicate—and, therefore, improve—our sympathies. They educate our capacity for moral judgment.

No one is a devil if fully heard.

Before this I had always held back, had never lived freely, not with Pietro, not even with Palmira, but here, where nothing was known, I did not fear judgment, and because Father and I shared the same sensibilities, all the rigidness of my living melted and I felt myself coming into myself. If it was genuine, if it would last, it was a wonderful feeling.

When a couple argued about money, it was never about money. It was about power and self-worth and judgment;

It's not for me to judge what a person did in her past. That belongs to her and her alone." "You give people a lot of grace, Jerome. It's really nice." "Everyone has a past. It's who you are right now that matters.

she learned early on that looking pretty wasn't always an advantage. Sometimes it attracted the wrong kind of attention.

When Darla told her parents she was pregnant, they made her leave. They were old-school. Said they couldn't handle the shame.

It is also true that his hair had a reddish tinge and, as everybody knows, no one with red hair can ever truly be said to be handsome.

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers can be made to understand your own opinions better. It is the easiest thing in the world to turn a review to one's own ends. One only need mention the book once or twice and for the rest of the article one may develop one's theme just as one chuses. It is, I assure you, what every body else does.

I can see it is in the nature of men to prefer one thing to another, to find one thing more meaningful than another.

The question that is so clearly in many potential parents minds: Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.