Passing Judgment Quotes

• Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.

  Archibald Cox

  Country, Weakness, Judgment

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

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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• Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

  Theodore Parker

  Inward, Judgment, Failing

  "Dictionary of American Maxims". Book edited by David George Plotkin, 1955.

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• If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

  Johnny Depp

  Inspirational, Color, Being Different

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• It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

  Carl Rogers

  Elements, Seems, Astonishing

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

  Liz Carpenter

  Birthday, People, Judging

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• When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Responsibility, Confusion, Empathy

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• You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one.

  Michael Jackson

  Judging, Judgement, Persons

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• Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

  Francois Rabelais

  Tolerance, Mind, Worship

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• With regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them.

  Galileo Galilei

  People, Matter, Arguing

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• It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

  Carl Rogers

  Business, Healing, Confusion

  "A Way of Being".

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• Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own.

  Demi Lovato

  Character, Reflection, Remember

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• Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Thinking Of You, Writing, Want

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

  Max Lucado

  Strong, Tired, Judgment

  Max Lucado (2013). “Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible”, p.75, Thomas Nelson

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• I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Want, Judgment, Passing

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• To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

  Petrarch

  Men, Evil, Utterance

  Epistola ad Posteros [Letter to Posterity] in "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters" by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, (p. 59), 1898.

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• I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Thinking, Worst Enemy, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being? In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself. How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Science, Philosophy and Religion, A Symposium". Book published by the Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life, Inc., New York, 1941.

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• Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.

  Denise Linn

  Past, Stories, Might

  Denise Linn (2010). “Past Lives, Present Miracles”, p.91, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.

  Max Horkheimer

  Reality, Men, Our World

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

  Galileo Galilei

  Men, Hands, Long

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• [M]ost people offend God by passing judgment on the things others do, especially important people, not knowing the reasons why they are doing what they do; for when one does not know the primary cause of some matter, what conclusions can he draw from it?

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Knowing, People

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Whereas modern cynicism brought despair about the ability of the human species to realize laudable ideals, postmodern cynicism doesn't — not because it's optimistic, but because it can't take ideals seriously in the first place. The prevailing attitude is Absurdism. A postmodern magazine may be irreverent, but not bitterly irreverent, for it's not purposefully irreverent; its aim is indiscriminate, because everyone is equally ridiculous. And anyway, there's no moral basis for passing judgment. Just sit back and enjoy the show.

  Robert Wright

  Attitude, Optimistic, Despair

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