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We need to encourage each other to do what we want and not let it totally define us. You know? The t...

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Your ego is your strictest judge.

The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absol...

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No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man t...

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Ayn RandThe Fountainhead

When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the oat, h...

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Ayn RandThe Fountainhead

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there...

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Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou...

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...research tells us that we judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picki...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to ...

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The bad psychological material is not a sin but a disease. It does not need to be repented of, but t...

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Women sometimes have the problem of trying to judge by artificial light how a dress will look by day...

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C. S. LewisThe Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vi...

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One cannot judge a man for the sins of his family.

The monster's bride at his door. Magnus could not stop staring. [Jocelyn] was staring too. She seeme...

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I have been a friend to Shadowhunters. I know many of your families, going back for hundreds of year...

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Cassandra ClareThe Last Stand of the New York Institute

If every man who passed an unjust judgment on his fellow should be condemned, how many judges would ...

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She expected no judgement and wanted no pity.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the ...

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We choose our favourite author as we do our friend, from a conformity of humour and disposition. Mir...

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…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean,...

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He has a passport," my classmates would whisper. "Quick, let's run before he judges us!

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost.W...

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When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say '...

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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with ...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly.

While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally imp...

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I don't believe what you believe," I yelled, "and I don't respect your beliefs and I don't respect y...

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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

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Erica JongSeducing the Demon: Writing for My Life

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ta...

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Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages ...

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Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stan...

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What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to...

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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang ...

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Fulton J. SheenSeven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is ...

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I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much i...

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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

I have never been an eavesdropper, even in childhood. Not from any sense of virtue but because I rea...

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(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can ...

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Harper LeeGo Set a Watchman

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you kn...

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Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)......

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I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to posi...

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It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through t...

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I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge ...

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Thy silence, then that voices thee.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for ...

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In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opini...

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We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready ...

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How shall a man judge what to do in such times?''As he ever has judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and ill...

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But you don't hold yourself superior to all the judges of music?" she protested."No, no, not for a m...

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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the ri...

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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.

Her father had always said that a man could be fairly judged by the quality of his allies and that o...

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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago d...

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Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; ...

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But now, if I be marching on with my utmost vigour in that way which, according to the sacred geogra...

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John LockeA Letter Concerning Toleration: Humbly Submitted

That's why I'm talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from...

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Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be tol...

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Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A p...

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The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled cr...

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Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and t...

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How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought a...

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Kazuo IshiguroAn Artist of the Floating World

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybody...

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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who...

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There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement.

But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom tha...

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For it was through books that she felt her life to be unjudged Look at all of the great mix-ups, mes...

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Louise ErdrichThe Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to liste...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far...

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That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whene...

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Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

However carefully a judge is protected by the experience and the logic of the law, there must be tim...

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The benefit of appearing so young is I'm constantly underestimated

These people who can see right through you never quite do you justice, because they never give you c...

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I believe that am entire nation should not be judged by the wrongdoings of a few extremists.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a ...

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There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze,...

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We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure ...

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No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

...were these Essays of mine considerable enough to deserve a critical judgment, it might then, I th...

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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

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Michel de MontaigneThe Essays: A Selection

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

When you judge someone you have no time to love them.

Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti...

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Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.