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Quotes About Judgment

You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge.
~ Judith Light
She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.
~ Judith Martin
But sometimes one hears an Etiquette-Buster's confession that rings true: "You make me feel guilty." I'm not going to bother, this argument goes, so we need to lower the standard so I don't look bad. On
~ Judith Martin
you never give anything below your own taste level—something you wouldn't want, but suppose is good enough for others.
~ Judith Martin
clap has too sharp a sting.
~ Judith Martin
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
~ Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Tell me, Brother Gregory, in your opinion can a woman think as well as a man?" "Properly speaking," he said in a learned voice, "a woman cannot think at all, or at least, think as we men know it. But the imitative ability is very greatly developed in women, so that by copying men, some may attain the appearance of thought.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
The art of communicating is to speak with a non judging sensitivity and mean it rather than impulsively verbalizing whatever feelings arise; there's no better way to make a point.
~ Judith Orloff
All must answer for their deeds eventually
~ Judith Pella
I didn't really notice that he had a funny nose. And he certainly looked better all dressed up in fancy clothes. He's not nearly as attractive as he seemed the other night. So I think I'll just pretend that this glass slipper feels too tight.
~ Judith Viorst
He might have been a thief and a liar and a cheat, but he was a good person.
~ Judy Blundell
Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. "I had a great time with... them." Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut!
~ Judy Carter
Real religion is in your mind and heart, and can't be judged by the number of times you go to church."
~ Judy Garland
Discovery is discernment, selection.
~ Jules Henri Poincaré
A fool is a man who think another man is a fool.
~ Jules Renard
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
~ Jules Renard
I don't claim to have taste , but of my distaste I am very sure .
~ Jules Renard
clever people will judge the truth according to its usefulness, not validity.
~ Juli Zeh
D]ie spezielle Müdigkeit, die jeden befällt, der sich anhören muss, was gut und böse, richtig und falsch sei, obwohl niemand mehr die Grundlagen dieser Unterscheidung zu erklären oder auch nur zu benennen vermag. Moral dient der Herbeiführung von Berechenbarkeit.
~ Juli Zeh
Es wäre unsinnig, das Leben mit Warten auf die zweite Instanz zu verbringen.
~ Juli Zeh
Wir] leben alle von den Irrtümern, die unsere Mitmenschen über uns hegen.
~ Juli Zeh
Nach dem demokratischen Verständnis muss der Maßstab jeder Aburteilung abstrakt sein. Das folgt aus dem Verbot von Einzelfallgesetzen. [...] Wozu sollte das Abstrakte uns dienen, wenn nicht als Maßstab für Aburteilungen?
~ Juli Zeh
Es [gibt] vielleicht pragmatische Urteile, nicht aber pragmatische Gerechtigkeit.
~ Juli Zeh
O]b dies das eigentliche Ende des Gefangenendilemmas sei: wenn Richter und Angeklagte sich in die Arme fielen, um gemeinsam über einen Repräsentanten der alten Ordnung zu spotten.
~ Juli Zeh