Quotes About Judgment

My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

Stop thinking about Michael," Tuck orders. "He was cute." "So is a hairy ferret but I wouldn't want to date one. [...]

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

Judge me all you want, just keep the verdict to yourself.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

we all tend to criticize in others what we are most insecure about in ourselves.

If you are not going to pretend you are problem-free, at least show everyone you are deeply ashamed. 5. If you are not going to either pretend to be perfect or act ashamed, don't show up.

You only get one chance to make a positive first impression — be absolutely sure to take it!

The lesson was clear: they should have voted for Clay even if he was a slave owner. That would not have been evil, because a tree was known by the fruit it bore. "If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

assumed both the capability and the fallibility of human reason.

She was looking at me as if I was a painting too, to be examined for symbols and meaning, and she couldn't decide in the end if I really was just a mass of pointless daubs

Never judge someone by the way he looks or a book by it's covered; for inside those tattered pages, there's a lot to be discovered.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager," he said

Rightly did Darwin pin up a paper warning himself to be careful about using the words "higher" and "lower." MARY MIDGLEY