Judging A Book By Its Cover Quotes

• Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Inspirational, Book, Haste Makes Waste

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• Don't judge a book by its cover

  George Eliot

  Book, Haste Makes Waste, Judging

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• We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?

  Cao Cao

  Book, Judging, Idiom

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• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Believe, Book

  "It pays to trust your gut" by Daniel Terdiman, www.wired.com. January 7, 2005.

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Evil

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press

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• All that glitters is not gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Empty Vessels, Gold, Glitter

  David Schajer, William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's Premiere of Richard III”, p.75, David Schajer

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• We should never judge a day by its weather.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Weather, Judging

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• Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

  Shannon Hale

  Book, People, Judging

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• We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

  Axl Rose

  Inspirational, Book, Judging

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• Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Love Is, Judging Yourself, Judging Others

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.129, SCM Press

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

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Book, Color, People

  Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.21, Penguin

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• If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Book, Judging, Should

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• My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Book, Outlook On Life, Judging

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill.

  Gunplay

  Tattoo, Book, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We can't keep thinking of gay people as being ostracised; we can't keep thinking of Muslim people as being [ostracised] because of the fundamentalism that occurs in Islam. Muslim people have to do something about speaking up about it. We can't judge a book by its cover.

  Elton John

  Book, Gay, Thinking

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Wake Up, Persons, Knows

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  People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities.

  Mike Markkula

  Book, People, Judging

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• Books are not like people. Books are safe.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Book, People, Safe

  Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.21, Penguin

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• I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Book, Judging, Wake Up

  Rolling Stone Online, May 1997.

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• George W. Bush was passionate about AIDS. And we had a 10-minute talk at the interval of a concert at the Kennedy Center about AIDS. And I was astonished about how well-informed he was and his commitment to AIDS. And so it's the typical thing of don't judge a book by its cover until you have read the book.

  Elton John

  Book, Commitment, Judging

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You cannot judge a book by its contents.

  Jon Stewart

  Book, Judging, Idiom

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• At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.

  Alberto Manguel

  Fashion, Book, Judging

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Sex, Book

  "The Colbert Report", Season 3. Comedy, News, Talk-Show, 2007.

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