Quotes About Judgment

She's simply another girl who has gotten by on her looks—her currency in this world—and it will not be fun to watch her grow old.

Maybe it was just another episode in the reality show that is still unfolding. Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.

the sweet and smiley and sexually unthreatening elf with liberal values and a positive attitude is supposed to transform everyone into noble gay-loving protectors—again, as long as the gay in question toes the party line, isn't messy or too sexual, negative or angry and offers no contradictions and is certainly not conservative or Christian.

Moral of the story?

Or maybe when you're roiling in childish rage, the first thing you lose is judgment, and then comes common sense. And finally you lose your mind and along with that, your freedom.

Do you know what a fucking loser you are?

Feelings aren't facts and opinions aren't crimes

Okay, even though you think Erasure is a good band, I think I can still trust you." "They are, Victor, and—

and somehow, the more we would face our own demons of pride, greed, and lust, the more gentle and kind we would become toward others, the less judgmental, the less harsh, the more empathetic, because we realize as never before that everyone is pitched in an invisible inner battle, and the battle isn't easy for anyone.

Can you imagine Jesus saying, "Believe that I am the only way. Why? Because I said so, that's why! And if you don't believe, then you're going straight to hell!" But isn't that how we present him through our slogans?

But to feel both innocent and superior because of my innocence doesn't seem terribly innocent.

A generous orthodoxy is like that. It acknowledges that we're all a mess. It sees in our worst failures the possibility of our deepest repentance and God's opening for our most profound healing. It remembers Jesus' parable that wherever God sows good seed, "an enemy" will sow weed seeds. It realizes that you can't pull up the bad without uprooting the good too, and so it refrains from judging. It just rejoices wherever good seed grows.

Church!" she cried. "Why would I ever go there? I was already feeling terrible about myself. They'd just make me feel worse.

without intent or design, without forethought or judgment, without planning or deliberation, the cosmos yields meticulously ordered configurations of particles from atoms to stars to life.

Looking around, Ishmael noted that the humans in control here didn't seem to care. Why is their religious fervor acceptable, while ours is a matter of scorn?

Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.

We believe that confession should lead to forgiveness and redemption. Usually, however, it leads only to further accusations.

Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories.

Knowledge is pitiless.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. —LETO ATREIDES II, the God Emperor

Many people are fools, once you get to know them.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions. —CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership

Anyone with an autobiography is almost definitely an evil piece of shit.

A beheadable-yet-fair assessment.