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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.

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the begin...

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It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who...

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That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

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Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could ...

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To be sure, there's a warm passion behind what you say. But if you give in to that passion, friends,...

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You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations,...

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Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, co...

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When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some o...

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What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possi...

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

Who knows a woman's heart? Most women will shrug off what a man would kill you for, and kill you for...

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They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its ...

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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

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Santiago Ramón y CajalAdvice for a Young Investigator

There isn't a man on earth who doesn't at times pronounce an opinion on good and evil, even if it be...

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Simone WeilThe Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

You don't have the right to hold somebody accountable for standards you refuse to apply to yourself.

...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

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Stephen KingEverything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

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Sylvester StalloneSly Moves: My Proven Program to Lose Weight

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what ...

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...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown.

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Thomas HardyThe Hand of Ethelberta

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, i...

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The Jews have made him [Yahweh] the assassin of the human species, to make room for the religion of ...

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I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand i...

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ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War

We will be judged by how well we love.

I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?

Are they not criminals, books that have wasted our time and sympathy; are they not the most insidiou...

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Virginia WoolfHow Should One Read a Book?

How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this...

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Now how does all this relate to Islamic jihad? Islam sees violence as a means of propagating the Mus...

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As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can’t be just, be arbitrary

I seeIn many an eye that measures meThe mortal sickness of a mindToo unhappy to be kind.Undone with ...

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The business card does not fully reflect who we are. We are being judged, we feel, in a humiliating ...

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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be ...

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People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemol...

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Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is mor...

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Aleister CrowleyThe Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

She was of traditional build herself, but her figure was largely concealed by the folds of a generou...

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Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its ...

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Amartya SenThe Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History

False has many wings. Do not judge anything by its popularity.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or ta...

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We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, ...

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Anaïs NinA Spy in the House of Love

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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