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Judgment Quotes
"I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man."
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"Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it's bad."
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"Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment."
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"Never judge a book by its "spine"."
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"That sovereign of insufferables."
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"Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends."
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"It's neither judgment nor judgment according to the status quo that we have a problem with, but rather judgment according to God's Word that we have a problem with. We sharply dress ourselves, go out into the world, shape ourselves, our personalities according to the world's standards and preferences, allow ourselves to be made dull by the world and its desires in order to appear successful and happy and attractive in the eyes of the world. We love the world's judgment but we hate God's judgment. Absurdly enough, the one that really matters, the one out of the purest of loves rather than a mere contract in hopes of mutual gain, is the one which we so adamantly try to shut ourselves off from."
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"The unfairness of judging others comes in that we judge them on the basis of our own values and beliefs, yet we can never exactly stand on common ground."
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"Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people."
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"I beg your pardon? Catherine interrupted. "Are you implying that women have poor judgment?"In these matters, yes. Leo gestured to Christopher. "Just look at the fellow, standing there like a bloody Greek god. Do you think she chose him because of his intellect?"I graduated from Cambridge, Christopher said acidly. "Should I have brought my diploma?"In this family, Cam interrupted, "there is no requirement of a university degree to prove one's intelligence. Lord Ramsay is a perfect example of how one has nothing to do with the other."
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"It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to continue to have feminine bodies, so many of these tacky sluts have never heard word one about what fashion entails."
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"One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to bear even good judgment when it so passes by, still everyone, inevitably, has a viral opinion (judgment) about everything and everyone, but little skill in good judgment as its verification or harness."
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"Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else, it is to say that that person is superior in some sense."
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"There is a fine line between fair criticism and jealous assault."
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"There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it."
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"Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men."
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"You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake."
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"At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16"
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"The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it."
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"Be very careful when you judge another human being. Do not measure anybody strictly based on the bad you see in them and ignore all the good. Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda. Such a man's judgment lacks merit and should be disregarded immediately. Without a conscience, there is no truth in them."
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"There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another because he is angered in thoughtlessness; then, one man is tolerant because he was given the flag of peace, another because he is cowardly and wishes to hide all guilt."
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"It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born."
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"She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours."
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"To say, 'he lacks understanding', about someone is an open kashay (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed)."
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"Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else."
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"So many things people say may seem so good and right, you only have to think twice to know what is so good and right!"
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"Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing as it did, edible foodstuffs. "Coffee? Water?" Don't say wax fruit. "Wax fruit?" Damn."
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"The masses who complain about bad leadership must first check their unbiased choices."
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"I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded."
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"Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them."
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"There are such repulsive faces in the world."
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"You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel."
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"Opera lovers may be the narrowest people in the world."
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"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world... They live as we all should live-undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet... Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are-my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."
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"The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging."
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