#judge

He broke his promise. He said he would never hurt me, he said he would never leave. Against my better judgement, he made me believe in forever again... until now. ↗

— L.M. Trio

#judgement

Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgement, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#wrongdoing #judgement

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#memory #judgement

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#humanity #judgement #literature #judgement

There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they’re good. ↗

— David Farland

#quality #art

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#revelation #zeal #zealous #art

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#character #deep #genius #high #i

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#distance #excellence #judge #peak #people

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#envy #god #hatred #judges #love

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#decisions #expert #ignore #judgements #knowing