Quotes about Judgment
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.
— Paulo Coelho
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.
— Paulo Coelho
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
— Paulo Coelho
If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
— Paulo Coelho
one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.
— Paulo Coelho
We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.
— Paulo Coelho
If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry.
— Paulo Coelho
Until one day when, as well as his spiritual death, physical death appears; at that moment God will ask: what did you do with your life? We must all answer this question, and woe betides those who answer: I remained standing at the door.
— Paulo Coelho
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive way of being different.
— Paulo Coelho
The 'insane' always believe in first impressions.
— Paulo Coelho
Ecclesiastes says: "Instead of justice there was wickedness, instead of righteousness, there was yet more wickedness…. But God will judge them all, both the righteous and the wicked, God will judge them both, for there is a time for every intention, a time for every deed.
— Paulo Coelho
A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.