Quotes About Judgment

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

With my own pupils now I always try to remember the value of encouragement. Sometimes a callow youth appears who may be a fool or may be a genius and I would rather be guilty of encouraging a fool than of discouraging a genius.

The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.

A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

Leadership demands that we make tough choices.

Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull.

You know what I hate most of all in the whole wide world?...More than people who think that if you're bisexual it means you'll fuck absolutely anyone (especially them)?

I don't avoid anyone but I always think some people hate me.

I was always being told by him how much of a disappointment I was, both in my appearance—my hair, of course, but also my posture, my weight,

the deeply held, sinister belief that perhaps HIV is physical evidence of our own unloveableness.

We are much better able to evaluate someone else's behavior than we are our own.

By pointing out the errors of others, we strive to elevate ourselves above them.

Our tendency to point out the weaknesses of others is a way to avoid facing our own shortcomings and areas needing improvement.

Was Eve's sin so much greater and more unforgivable than Adam's that the entire female gender must forever be treated with suspicion and controlling measures?

Luther could say, 'It is not a bad, but a very good sign if the opposite of what we pray for appears to happen. Just as it is not a good sign if our prayers eventuate in the fulfillment of all we ask for. If everything were to go the way I want it, I would end up in that kind of false security which is really an instrument of the divine judgment.

Silly to you, maybe. All reasons are silly to someone else, and we think the challenges to the books already removed are silly. What makes one person's reason any sillier than another person's reason?

They only see us when we do something they don't want us to do

Nobody liked Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher. For one thing, he had too many titles.

there are few situations which reveal a man's character and personality so strongly as the occupancy of a witness-box.

I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says 'Judge not, lest ye be judged," he is forbidding condemnation, not discernment. There are times indeed when Christian charity demands that one speak forcibly.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. —Alfred A. Montapert

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points