Quotes about Judgment

We all know that light travels faster than sound. That's why certain people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seems to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgement or to feel doubt.

Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seem to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as self-evident matters about which it would be reasonable to suspend our judgment or to feel doubt.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

Meditation on the bus. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it.