- “When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.” ~Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth and Being Free
- “The ego feels that it must do something about these differences. It points them out, judges them, argues with them, attacks them, and tries to change them. Differences make the ego feel superior, inferior, defensive, frightened, or angry—not loving, kind, compassionate, or even curious. For the ego, differences stir up inner and outer conflict and plenty of feelings. This is the ego’s experience of relationships.” ~Gina Lake, Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships
- “The ego doesn’t want to love as much as it wants to be right, and it tries to be right by judging others. It gets pleasure in feeling superior by judging others.” ~Gina Lake, Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships
- “Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.” ~Donald Rumsfield
- “We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.” ~Ian Percy
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~Carl Gustav Jung
- “We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.” ~Bob Packwood
- “Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.” ~Jesse Jackson
- “Making matters worse is people’s natural inclination to be easy on themselves, judging themselves according to their good intentions—while holding others to a higher standard and judging them by their worst actions.” ~John C. Maxwell, There’s No Such Thing as “Business” Ethics: There’s Only One Rule for Making Decisions
- “If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.” ~Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.” ~Sydney J. Harris
- “Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.” ~Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
- “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.” ~Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
- “You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.” ― Stephen King, Night Shift
- “Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?” ~Laurent Fignon, We Were Young and Carefree
- “Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used.” ~Carl Sagan
- “One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.” ~Woodrow Wilson
- “By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
~Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. -- Jean de La Fontaine~