#judgement

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you credit for the effort you're making to be better than you actually are, which is difficult and well meant and deserving of some little notice. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#effort

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I? ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#prejudice #prejudice

The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Cleary

#knowledge #observer #conformity

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#memory #judgment

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another sense, actually, you can't say no because it's like Jeremiah. 'God, you have cheated me. You called me to be a prophet against the people that I love, and all that I proclaim is words of doom and judgement.' And yet if I say "I will shut up", I can't. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#doom #judgement #prophecy #rebellion #speaking-up

Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions ‘lay be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#judgement #freedom

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#judgement #thought #friendship

The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#judgement #self-improvement #inspirational

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself. ↗

— Toba Beta

#blurs #center #focus #judge #judgement