Judgment Quotes - Page 16

• There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.

  Dorothee Solle

  Decision, Leaving, Suffering

  Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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• A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Denied, One Thing

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• Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Brain, Firsts, Clients

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and more unbalanced judgments. In this the child is like the woman.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Children, Feelings, Perception

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• Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge others by the light that is within ourselves, condemning or approving them by our own conception of right and wrong, honor and dishonor! We show by our judgment just what the light within us is.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Light, Judging, Mind

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  Wicked, Citizens, Politician

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• Prejudice is an assortment of deceptively small personal judgments - deceptive because of their great cost in our daily lives.

  Jean Stapleton

  Prejudice, Cost, Daily Life

  "Overcoming My Archie Bunker Prejudice" by Jean Stapleton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2013.

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• We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

  Ethel Waters

  Missing, Quitting, Knows

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• It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Opportunity, Embrace, Wells

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• True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or being held captive by your conditioned mind's judgments and defensiveness.

  Adyashanti

  Powerful, Order, Mind

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• Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In its most advanced state it takes the title of judgment. Hume quotes Fontenelle's ingenious distinction between the common watch that tells the hours, and the delicately constructed one that marks the seconds and smallest differences of time.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Differences, Taste, Titles

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

  J. G. Holland

  People, Corn, Firsts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• [On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.

  Isabel Briggs Myers

  Summer, Mother, Long

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• Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

  Joyce Johnson

  Girl, Nice, Home

  Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.86, Penguin

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• Strength without judgment falls by its own weight.

  Horace

  Fall, Weight

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• Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.

  Horace

  Strength, Policy

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• In your judgment virtue requires no reward, and is to be sought for itself, unaccompanied by external benefits.
  [Lat., Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est
  Externis virtus incomitata bonis.]

  Ovid

  Benefits, Rewards, Virtue

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• All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor.

  Samuel Johnson

  Errors, Criticism, May

  Samuel Johnson (1782). “The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Extracted from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order, After the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims”, p.176

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• Wit and judgment often are at strife.

  Alexander Pope

  Strife, Wit

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.241

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• Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given,
  That brought into this world a world of woe,
  Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery,
  Death's harbinger.

  John Milton

  Shadow, World, Woe

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.125

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• I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Thinking, Giving

  "I was just waiting for my time" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2007.

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• No, the people standing before Christ and Pilate during the judgment scene do not condemn an entire race for the death of Christ anymore than the actions of Mussolini condemn all Italians, or the heinous crimes of Stalin condemn all Russians.

  Jim Caviezel

  Race, People, Action

  "Jim Caviezel Talks About Playing Christ in 'The Passion'". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.

  Sharon Lawrence

  Girl, Kids, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

  Hill Harper

  Men, Color, Black

  "Trayvon Martin Case: ABC News Radio Conversation on Race and Justice" by Joshua Cohan, abcnews.go.com. March 28, 2012.

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• I suffer the anthropological malady diagnosed by Le  vi- Strauss inTristes tropiques: I find it much more difficult to suspend value judgments about the society in which I normally reside than I do abroad. It takes physical and cultural distance to gain moral detachment and political noncommitment. Relativism implies a solid measure of indifference.

  Pierre L. van den Berghe

  Distance, Political, Suffering

  'From the Popocatepetl to the Limpopo', collected in Bennett Berger (ed) Authors of their Own Lives (1990).

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