Judgement Quotes

• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

  401 Copy quote

• The more one judges, the less one loves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Inspiring, Positivity

  Honore De Balzac (2005). “The Physiology of Marriage and Pierre Grassou”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

  116 Copy quote

  Show source

• Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Failure, Errors

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 31, 2016

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  Wayne Dyer

  Lying, Judging, Racism

  109 Copy quote

• People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Order, People

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.80, Vintage

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Inspirational, I Hate You, People

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Aug 07, 2013

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

  Virginia Satir

  Appreciate, Judging, Guilt

  Virginia Satir (1976). “Making Contact”

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Regret

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 04, 2014

  81 Copy quote

  Show source

• Be curious, not judgmental.

  Walt Whitman

  Life, Meaningful, Judging

  Walt Whitman, The Secret Libraries (2016). “Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman”

  257 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Leadership, Karma

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Nov 11, 2011

  205 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

  939 Copy quote

• If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Power, Judging

  49 Copy quote
• 

  Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

  Carl Jung

  Relationship, Leadership, Spiritual

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

  311 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not my place in society that makes me well off, but my judgements, and these I can carry with me... These alone are my own and cannot be taken away.

  Epictetus

  Taken, Wells, My Own

  13 Copy quote

• It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Past, Judging

  45 Copy quote

• Hear Everything and judge for yourself

  George Eliot

  Judging

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.295, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Wise, Wisdom, Powerful

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1960). “St. Thomas Aquinas: Philosophical Texts”

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

  Joel Osteen

  Judging, People, Understanding

  27 Copy quote

• It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Gossip

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Education, Spiritual

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.3

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

  A. R. Ammons

  Objectivity, Law, Principles

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Hurt, Reflection, Talking

  14 Copy quote

• Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Inspirational, Money, Character

  90 Copy quote

• 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.

  Dorothy Day

  Inspirational, Believe, Mean

  "Dorothy Day Named National Hero By Obama At National Prayer Breakfast" by Shane Claiborne, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

  125 Copy quote

  Show source

• Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

  William Howard Taft

  Enthusiasm, Causes, Sometimes

  William Howard Taft (1912*). “Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administration”

  73 Copy quote

  Show source