Judgement Quotes

“If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“No one is responsible for what he is nor even for what he does. This is obvious and everyone more or less agrees that it is so. Then why celebrate or denigrate? Because to exist is to evaluate, to emit judgments, and because abstention, when it is not the effect of apathy or cowardice, requires an effort no one manages to make.”
― Emil Cioran

“Judgment is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all? To prohibit what they think pernicious is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction. If we were never to act on our opinions, because those opinions ‘lay be wrong, we should leave all our interests uncared for, and all our duties unperformed. An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Great men look greater than yesterday.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“There is a connection between freedom and self-confidence: When you are kept from expressing your deepest needs and wishes, you lose trust in their validity and in your own judgement. You survive by finding out the rules and following them, thus hiding what you really want. You make it your purpose in life to please others rather than to affirm yourself.”
― David Richo, How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“I can't mourn her without bringing shame to her name--I can't go back home now and mourn her,' wailed Jamie; 'oh, and I want to go back to Beedles, I want to be home among our own people--I want them to know how much I loved her. Oh God, oh God! I can't even mourn her, and I want to grieve for her home there in Beedles.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Humility is embracing our faults so we are able to soften our criticism towards others. It is seeing the world through the eyes of another without judgment.”

Excerpt From: Sarah Voldeng. “The Art of an Enlightened Woman.” Apple Books.”
― Sarah Voldeng, The Art of an Enlightened Woman: A Manifesto

“Where one stands on an issue depends on where one sits.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“That axiom applies to judgments as much as to the laws themselves.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Never hurt any part of this beautiful body again,” he told me with a fierceness in his expression. “If you need to hurt something, then hurt me. Not you. Never you.”
― Abbi Glines, Bombshell

“Every judgment is open to forgiveness, every act of judging can change into an act of forgiving; to judge and to forgive are but the two sides of the same coin. But the two sides follow different rules. The majesty of the law demands that we be equal - that only our acts count, and not the person who committed them. The act of forgiving, on the contrary, takes the person into account; no pardon pardons murder or theft but only the murderer or the thief. We always forgive somebody, never something, and this is the reason people think that only love can forgive. But, with or without love, we forgive for the sake of the person, and while justice demands that all be equal, mercy insists on inequality - an inequality implying that every man is, or should be, more than whatever he did or achieved.”
― Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

“It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“It is far easier to blindly judge than to open our hearts to others and see their truth.”
― George Mann, Qui-Gon

“I'll be concerned what other people think of me when I look in my bill box, and see their name. Until then, they can tell their story walking away”
― Ron Baratono

“For Having Offended Thee by Stewart Stafford

A rebirth in my other kingdom,
Deafening choruses of mute vampires,
Stowaway's arrival not of my choice,
Treading water on stranger's ground.

The crunching gravel of past sins,
Fine bone dust of wasted chances,
Weighed down at Purgatory's door,
The gatekeepers nod and admit me.

A hurricane swirl of screaming souls,
Housed within Infinity's planetarium,
Whispers, pleas, a drowning outcry,
Metaphysical smothering of bodily errs.

© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The phrase 'rush to judgement' is a silly one. When it comes to judgement, most of us don't have to rush. We don't have to even leave the couch. Our judgement is so easy to reach for.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“I'll be concerned what people think of me when I look in my bill box and see their name. Until then, they can tell their story walking away.”
― Ron Baratono

“Judecăm ușor, iertăm greu și iubim tot mai puțin.”
― Ioana Duda, Antidepresiv

“To judge someone is to miss the divinity in that person, to think of them as less than who they really are. To judge is simply to project our own limitations onto another. When we feel compassion for our own limitations, for our own humanity, we never judge others. When we are conscious of our own greatness, we see the greatness of others.”
― Joyce Vissell, Heartfullness: 52 Ways to Open to More Love

“Wounds can be a set of eyes
Watching you ever so concerned
Two sets of eyes looking at one another
One can't speak but can judge
While the other hurts further
Two sets of eyes, who are, too, tired”
― Clinton Eastwood

“What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise—does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going. (You see how grovelling, how unspiritual, how irredeemably vulgar He is!) This attitude, especially during sermons, creates the condition (most hostile to our whole policy) in which platitudes can become really audible to a human soul. There is hardly any sermon, or any book, which may not be dangerous to us if it is received in this temper.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Actually, that describes how I feel about Christian perfectly, like he won't judge me no matter what I say or do. And in a world where I'm constantly being judged - online and in real life - that's the best feeling in the world.”
― Ana Huang, Twisted Lies

“Every judgment, even if based on facts and norms, carries the subjectivity of the judge.”
― Marcese Maschietto

“Oh, the ones who stand on the precipice of their own small judgments! Do not fret, beloved. Their words are but the rustling of dry leaves, destined to be swept away by the wind of divine love. They do not truly matter.”
― Unknown Author

“Gulping down his envy with a bracing chaser of contempt, a Roman in Egypt found himself less awed than offended. He wrote off extravagance as detrimental to body and mind, sounding like no one so much as Mark Twain resisting the siren call of Europe. Staring an advanced civilization straight in the face, the Roman reduced it either to barbarism or decadence.”
― Stacy Schiff, Cleopatra: A Life

“Yet, apocalypse also implies judgment, a necessary exposure of the lies we’ve inherited and lived by. Atonement is not always soft—it burns that which needs to die but wishes to cling on. The only way to kill shame is to hang it publicly.”
― Paule Patterson, The Son of Man & Its Mystical Awakening: Reclaiming Eschatology & Atonement During a Convergence of Globalization, Nihilism, Science, & Spirituality

“The information is only as reliable as the source.”
― Sasha Laghonh

“I remember thinking how exhausting it was to exist as a rational thinker in the Bible Belt. No one judged you based on your character; instead it was all about how many times per week you went to church.”
― Jennifer Welch, Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches

“Some of us seem to imagine the more respectable a person is, the more reason to attack him”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man Who Japed