Judgmental Quotes

“It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.”
― Navonne Johns

“The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.”
― John Mark Green

“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
― Calvin Coolidge

“Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else; it is to say that that person is superior in some sense.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“A judgmental heart keeps listening to the things that annoy.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Judgmental heart has lack of introspection.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Before you condemn someone else for a wrongful act, check your behavior and see if you too, have committed an act similar or even worse than the act that person has done. Then you won’t be in a position to judge.”
― Ellen J. Barrier

“If a satire breeds misconceptions, it's an effective satire. The more misconceptions, the more powerful the messages within the satire. Satire can be witty and wise, so it would behoove the reader to drop all their judgmental baggage and other distortions at the cover before entering the pages of satire.”
― Jasun Ether

“Blame the economy, blame bad luck, blame my parents, blame your parents, blame the Internet, blame people who use the Internet.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“The emphasis and the reason for a pure humility is to result in love for others; not always necessarily the belittlement of self. When there is pride and self-righteousness and being pretentiously too far above, generally, one has a difficult time reaching the compassionate side of love for others, the side that understands (or at least attempts to understand): 'I am aware that I am not so far from falling in the same way.' Humility seeks to understand, and sometimes even relate; and in result, the love lovingly, properly, effectively wills the removal of the destructive sins of another as from oneself.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Having a religion doesn’t make a person love or not love others. It doesn’t make a person accept or not accept others. It doesn’t make a person befriend or not befriend others.

Being without a religion doesn’t make somebody do or be any of that either.

No, what makes somebody love, accept, and befriend their fellow man is letting go of a need to be better than others.

Nothing else.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I promise you it doesn’t matter what you believe, how strongly you live your beliefs, or how true your beliefs are. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you are in the wrong. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks your beliefs are senseless or illogical. Somebody else, somewhere, thinks you have it all wrong. In fact, there are a lot of people in this world who do.”
― Dan Pearce

“Often, the best gifts we would ever receive in life are wrapped in the worst packages.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“The Vicar’s talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Judgment closes the doors of understanding, while analysis opens the windows of insight. The former dismisses, condemns, and separates, while the latter explores, comprehends, and connects. Let us choose the path of analysis over judgment, for it is through discernment and empathy that we foster true understanding and bridge the gaps between us”
― Erick "The Black Sheep" G

“If you cut me out of your life because I disagree with your beliefs or your philosophy, then who is the one being judgmental? We all differ in our opinions. We all require a degree of tolerance. But this tolerance you demand from me is a two-way street. How can you expect me to be respectful of your views if you are disrespectful of mine?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year

“Often arrogance is a defense mechanism
against the possibility of judgment.
Though it sounds righteous, most times
it makes us the evil we try to prevent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Do not judge a situation until you know the end of the story.”
― Paching Hoé Lambaiho, Words of the Shaman: 50 Quotes from Paching Hoé Lambaiho

“Ironically, some of the most foolish, prejudiced comments made were the ones by wits and grumps trying to impress others with their brains.”
― Criss Jami

“Opinion on everything, expert in nothing.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator

“How many of those all too happy to judge ‘simpletons’ today could even comprehend that intentional simplicity might be a far more satisfying and enriching lifestyle than their own frenzied, narcissistic pursuit of satisfaction and wealth?”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality

“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