judgment

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a72b055	More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.	less-more stressed being-positive mind hate compassion inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life spirituality positive positive-thinking optimism life love inspirational life-purpose blessed authentic-living smiles worry judgment worrying stress smile	Roy T. Bennett
6c767ff	A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.	men equality feminism poetry women writing empowerment dignity judgment misogyny hypocrisy double-standards respect gender	Virginia Woolf
5f8457e	Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.	reading books pg-84 senator-pococurante opinions fame taste judgment independent-thought	Voltaire
60de911	It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.	verdict reasonable-doubt mercy judgment innocence justice guilt	Voltaire
fd11f86	We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.	inspirational excellence personal-growth judgment journey	Henry Ward Beecher
59bab82	You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.	present depression future cognition issues troubles judgment	Andrew Solomon
ef9a085	It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.	friends friendship supporters fake-friends judgmental judgmental-people support reliance defend speak judgment cowardice	Mary Shelley
09828f4	"This cat is looking at me with judgment.""He's not," said Jules. "That's just his face.""You look at me the same way," Mark said, glancing at Julian. "Judgy face."	funny church-the-cat jules-blackthorn tda james-carstairs mark-blackthorn lady-midnight jem-carstairs the-dark-artifices emma-carstairs jemma julian-blackthorn judgment	Cassandra Clare
9182770	In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.	due-process impartiality dissent judgment justice fairness	Euripides
489a9c1	She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer. The words were set to a fine old air -- in themselves they were simple and sweet: perhaps, when read, they wanted force; when sung, they wanted nothing. Shirley sang them well: she breathed into the feeling, softness, she poured round the passion, force: her voice was fine that evening; its expression dramatic: she impressed all, and charmed one. On leaving the instrument, she went to the fire, and sat down on a seat -- semi-stool, semi-cushion: the ladies were round her -- none of them spoke. The Misses Sympson and the Misses Nunnely looked upon her, as quiet poultry might look on an egret, an ibis, or any other strange fowl. What made her sing so? never sang so. Was it proper to sing with such expression, with such originality -- so unlike a school girl? Decidedly not: it was strange, it was unusual. What was must be ; what was must be . Shirley was judged.	understanding prejudice jealousy passion women empathy morality music love musicality preconceptions feeling fidelity expression faithfulness propriety singing social-norms judgment society gift hypocrisy talent rejection gender expectations	Charlotte Brontë
e1db6d4	Sur quelque preference une estime se fonde, Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.	preference judgment	Molière
9bfa0cf	In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.	responsibility self-determination penance judgment	Ellis Peters
f548f8e	To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.	solidarity the-other judgment	Henri J.M. Nouwen
ad7788f	With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?	mind equality free books imagination education happiness intelligence conform breach burning examiners fliers grabbers imaginative-creators jumpers knowers moutains racers runners snatchers swimmers tinkerers bright intellectual critics target image dread judgment unfamiliar judge constitution rights cowardice bullying weapons different creativity torture school	Ray Bradbury
d7072bb	Who judges the judge who judges wrong? The sentence too weak, The sentence too strong. The penance too quick, The penance too long. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?	judgment	Gail Carson Levine
c42e3c5	You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is--say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.	dagny-taggart judgment	Ayn Rand
fe0704c	Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit.	spirit morality law judgment	Henry Miller
9ff8302	He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no sexual identity; took other people's jobs; or had no job and bummed off the state; or gave all the jobs to his relatives; that he could be a dentist or a shop-owner or a curry-shifter, but not a footballer or a filmmaker; that he should go back to his own country; or stay here and earn his bloody keep; that he worshiped elephants and wore turbans; that no one who looked like Millat, or spoke like Millat, or felt like Millat, was ever on the news unless they had recently been murdered.	prejudice judgment	Zadie Smith
d4aedba	"I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to "wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone." There wasn't a bit of real harm in my opening that window and talking to Perry. There wasn't even any harm in his trying to kiss me. He just did it to tease me. Oh, I hate conventions. As you say, hang consequences.' 'But we can't hang 'em, Pussy - that's just the trouble. They're more likely to hang us."	harmless harmlessness conventions judgmental judgment	L.M. Montgomery
66c618b	It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.	wisdom gwydion judgment	Lloyd Alexander
0eadad5	"Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!	imagination judgment	Chaucer Geoffrey
490d108	"Privilege" is something else. "Privilege" is a judgment. "Privilege" is an opinion. "Privilege" is an accusation."	privilege opinion judgment	Joan Didion
8a46f7a	If the quality of my Christianity lies in my ability to be more inclusive than the next pastor, things get tricky because I will always, always encounter people--intersex people, Republicans, criminals, Ann Coulter, etc.--whom I don't want in the tent with me. Always. I only really want to be inclusive of some kinds of people and not of others.	inclusivity judgment	Nadia Bolz-Weber
17684d7	I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.' 'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.	solitude vain-hopes judgment	Anne Brontë
3a704f3	. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.	judgment memory	George MacDonald Fraser
bfce144	Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.	judgment	Frank Herbert
1c4c038	Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that.	judgment	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9101910	He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.	goodness judgment human-nature	Patrick O'Brian
311cc4d	They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment... She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.	reading life kid judgment hero child childhood	Maile Meloy
335e70b	Personally, I think knowing the difference between a racist and a saint is kind of important. But when Jesus again and again says things like the last shall be first, and the first shall be last, and the poor are blessed, and the rich are cursed, and that prostitutes make great dinner guests, it makes me wonder if our need for pure black-and-white categories is not true religion but maybe actually a sin. Knowing what category to place hemlock in might help us know whether it's safe to drink, but knowing what category to place ourselves and others in does not help us know God in the way that the church so often has tried to convince us it does.	judgment	Nadia Bolz-Weber
dd48b4d	This result is fascinating because it shows that children as young as 10 feel the need to try to avoid appearing prejudiced, even if doing so leads them to perform poorly on a basic cognitive test,	judgment	Jared Taylor

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

less-more stressed being-positive mind hate compassion inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life spirituality positive positive-thinking optimism life love inspirational life-purpose blessed authentic-living smiles worry judgment worrying stress smile

Roy T. Bennett

6c767ff

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

men equality feminism poetry women writing empowerment dignity judgment misogyny hypocrisy double-standards respect gender

Virginia Woolf

5f8457e

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

reading books pg-84 senator-pococurante opinions fame taste judgment independent-thought

Voltaire

60de911

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

verdict reasonable-doubt mercy judgment innocence justice guilt

Voltaire

fd11f86

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

inspirational excellence personal-growth judgment journey

Henry Ward Beecher

59bab82

You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a mess. If there are issues you have successfully skirted or avoided for years, they come cropping back up and stare you full in the face, and one aspect of depression is a deep knowledge that the comforting doctors who assure you that your judgment is bad are wrong. You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it. When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. You cannot remember a time when you felt better, at least not clearly; and you certainly cannot imagine a future time when you will feel better.

present depression future cognition issues troubles judgment

Andrew Solomon

ef9a085

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

friends friendship supporters fake-friends judgmental judgmental-people support reliance defend speak judgment cowardice

Mary Shelley

09828f4

"This cat is looking at me with judgment.""He's not," said Jules. "That's just his face.""You look at me the same way," Mark said, glancing at Julian. "Judgy face."

funny church-the-cat jules-blackthorn tda james-carstairs mark-blackthorn lady-midnight jem-carstairs the-dark-artifices emma-carstairs jemma julian-blackthorn judgment

Cassandra Clare

9182770

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

due-process impartiality dissent judgment justice fairness

Euripides

489a9c1

She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer. The words were set to a fine old air -- in themselves they were simple and sweet: perhaps, when read, they wanted force; when sung, they wanted nothing. Shirley sang them well: she breathed into the feeling, softness, she poured round the passion, force: her voice was fine that evening; its expression dramatic: she impressed all, and charmed one. On leaving the instrument, she went to the fire, and sat down on a seat -- semi-stool, semi-cushion: the ladies were round her -- none of them spoke. The Misses Sympson and the Misses Nunnely looked upon her, as quiet poultry might look on an egret, an ibis, or any other strange fowl. What made her sing so? never sang so. Was it proper to sing with such expression, with such originality -- so unlike a school girl? Decidedly not: it was strange, it was unusual. What was must be ; what was must be . Shirley was judged.

understanding prejudice jealousy passion women empathy morality music love musicality preconceptions feeling fidelity expression faithfulness propriety singing social-norms judgment society gift hypocrisy talent rejection gender expectations

Charlotte Brontë

e1db6d4

Sur quelque preference une estime se fonde, Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.

preference judgment

Molière

9bfa0cf

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.

responsibility self-determination penance judgment

Ellis Peters

f548f8e

To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

solidarity the-other judgment

Henri J.M. Nouwen

ad7788f

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. You always dread the unfamiliar. Surely you remember the boy in your own school class who was exceptionally 'bright,' did most of the reciting and answering while the others sat like so many leaden idols, hating him. And wasn't it this bright boy you selected and tortured after hours? Of course it was. We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves again. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? Me?

mind equality free books imagination education happiness intelligence conform breach burning examiners fliers grabbers imaginative-creators jumpers knowers moutains racers runners snatchers swimmers tinkerers bright intellectual critics target image dread judgment unfamiliar judge constitution rights cowardice bullying weapons different creativity torture school

Ray Bradbury

d7072bb

Who judges the judge who judges wrong? The sentence too weak, The sentence too strong. The penance too quick, The penance too long. Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

judgment

Gail Carson Levine

c42e3c5

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is--say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

dagny-taggart judgment

Ayn Rand

fe0704c

Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit.

spirit morality law judgment

Henry Miller

9ff8302

He knew that he, Millat, was a Paki no matter where he came from; that he smelled of curry; had no sexual identity; took other people's jobs; or had no job and bummed off the state; or gave all the jobs to his relatives; that he could be a dentist or a shop-owner or a curry-shifter, but not a footballer or a filmmaker; that he should go back to his own country; or stay here and earn his bloody keep; that he worshiped elephants and wore turbans; that no one who looked like Millat, or spoke like Millat, or felt like Millat, was ever on the news unless they had recently been murdered.

prejudice judgment

Zadie Smith

d4aedba

"I hate to go mincing through life, afraid to take a single long step for fear somebody is watching. I want to "wave my wild tail and walk by my wild lone." There wasn't a bit of real harm in my opening that window and talking to Perry. There wasn't even any harm in his trying to kiss me. He just did it to tease me. Oh, I hate conventions. As you say, hang consequences.' 'But we can't hang 'em, Pussy - that's just the trouble. They're more likely to hang us."

harmless harmlessness conventions judgmental judgment

L.M. Montgomery

66c618b

It is beyond any man's wisdom to judge the secret heart of another... for in it are good and evil mixed.

wisdom gwydion judgment

Lloyd Alexander

0eadad5

"Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!

imagination judgment

Chaucer Geoffrey

490d108

"Privilege" is something else. "Privilege" is a judgment. "Privilege" is an opinion. "Privilege" is an accusation."

privilege opinion judgment

Joan Didion

8a46f7a

If the quality of my Christianity lies in my ability to be more inclusive than the next pastor, things get tricky because I will always, always encounter people--intersex people, Republicans, criminals, Ann Coulter, etc.--whom I don't want in the tent with me. Always. I only really want to be inclusive of some kinds of people and not of others.

inclusivity judgment

Nadia Bolz-Weber

17684d7

I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head, they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.' 'That,' replied I, 'is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.

solitude vain-hopes judgment

Anne Brontë

3a704f3

. . . what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

judgment memory

George MacDonald Fraser

bfce144

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.

judgment

Frank Herbert

1c4c038

Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that.

judgment

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

9101910

He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.

goodness judgment human-nature

Patrick O'Brian

311cc4d

They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment... She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable.

reading life kid judgment hero child childhood

Maile Meloy

335e70b

Personally, I think knowing the difference between a racist and a saint is kind of important. But when Jesus again and again says things like the last shall be first, and the first shall be last, and the poor are blessed, and the rich are cursed, and that prostitutes make great dinner guests, it makes me wonder if our need for pure black-and-white categories is not true religion but maybe actually a sin. Knowing what category to place hemlock in might help us know whether it's safe to drink, but knowing what category to place ourselves and others in does not help us know God in the way that the church so often has tried to convince us it does.

judgment

Nadia Bolz-Weber

dd48b4d

This result is fascinating because it shows that children as young as 10 feel the need to try to avoid appearing prejudiced, even if doing so leads them to perform poorly on a basic cognitive test,

judgment

Jared Taylor