Quotes about Judgment

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

your uncle Howard is one of the most harmless of men—much nicer than most professional people. Of course he does dreadful things as a judge; but then if you take a man and pay him 5,000 pounds a year to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can't help doing it, what can you expect?

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.