The Bible says, Judge not lest ye be judged. Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
Whenever you have a thought that excludes or judges anyone else, you aren't defining them. You're defining yourself as someone who needs to judge others.
One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because. . . we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.
When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice. " It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.
Conviction is a good motive, but a bad judge.
I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally been through so much that I couldn't even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone.
Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.
The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by the President with the approbation of both houses. If this would not be independence enough, I know not what would be.
Laws. . . proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.
There are few people with such talent, so there are few able to judge what I am doing.
Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.
Since Vice President Al Gore is constantly making things up, it should come as no surprise that he wants Supreme Court justices who will do the same. As Gore put it, he will appoint judges who view the Constitution as a 'document that grows'.
You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
You invite judgment into your life every time you judge others. To avoid this invitation to negativity, it's best to stop focusing on others' darkness. Instead, pay attention to their strengths. Today, be a horse with blinders. Look at only the good. As you develop this power, you will attract positive forces into your life.
To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge.
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
Base natures ever judge a thing above them, and hate a power they are too much obliged to.
What is this thing that has us chewing at our own selves, grating ourselves against our own sharp sieve? It is the act of stepping back. It is the act of separating, and judging. It takes only one because the one becomes two.