Judgement Quotes - Page 8

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic feeling... The desire to grasp and be united with another human is so fundamental a part of our nature that our judgement of what is known as 'pure form' is inevitably influenced by it, and one of the difficulties of the nude as a subject for art is that these instincts cannot be hidden.

One should make morals judgements for oneself.

The fragrances are really a dream about the possibilities of a life. Nonconformity, no judgement.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Don't be afraid to be a loner but be sure that you are correct in your judgement.

So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Many persons of high intelligence have notoriously poor judgement.

All one can do is to achieve nakedness, to be what one is with all one's faculties and perceptions, strengthened by all the skill which one can acquire. And then to stand before the judgement of time.

Listening can be an antidote to judgement. Listening matters.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.

Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well. Managing your time well makes you successful!

That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.

Every judgement blocks the light!

The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.