Quotes About Judgment

Man] sees the morning as the beginning of a new day; he takes germination as the start in the life of a plant, and withering as its end. But this is nothing more than biased judgment on his part. Nature is one. There is no starting point or destination, only an unending flux, a continuous metamorphosis of all things. —Masanobu Fukuoka, THE NATURAL WAY OF FARMING

Interestingly, the word, intelligence, comes from the Latin phrase inter legere—it means, simply, "to choose.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

In one test, subjects were presented with contradictory statements made by George Bush and John Kerry. Republicans judged Kerry's flip-flop harshly, while letting Bush off the hook for his. Democrats did the reverse. Interestingly, the brain scans showed that the parts of the brain governing emotion were far more active during the experiment than the reasoning parts.

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man. —Peter Townsend, "Behind Blue Eyes

Our worst critics prefer to stay.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

It sometimes seems that her getting into it with Jon is merely judiciously firm parenting, whereas when I do the same thing it's me being oppressive, or uncool, or basically an asshole.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

Finn O'Finnegan looked like a rogue and walked like a rascal, so it was widely thought that he was at least one or the other.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour.

we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior. This is why, as we'll discuss later, one of the fastest ways to restore trust is to make and keep commitments—even very small commitments—to ourselves and to others.

we judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior.

Never make a decision when you are in panic or drunk

We are judged... not by how we understand our words but by how our words are understood by others.

Marshall, gray-haired, storm-browed, is nevertheless a child sitting at a child's desk. He folds his papers impatiently, stuffs them into a leather satchel and stands. "We are judged," he says as he moves toward the door, "not by how we understand our words but by how our words are understood by others." He opens the door, then slams it behind him, but its sound is obliterated by my booming laughter.

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better.

Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.

Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.

In short, you have all the social prospects of a garden gnome.

Don't live to be judged for what you haven't done. Live to be judged for what you have done.

The tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

Cosmic Ordering does not judge you.