Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it."
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Judgment
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Daniel Gilbert
Businessman
"People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."
D. A. Carson
Theologian
"If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross."
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
"We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments."
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"Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts."
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"The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions."
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"It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation."
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"There's nothing wrong with being gay, so to deny it is to make a judgment."
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"I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope."
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"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."
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"The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion."
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"If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement."
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"If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one."
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"Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never."
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"If you find someone with wisdom, good judgment, and good actions; make him a companion."
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"Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness."
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"Time is the only critic without ambition."
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"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . ."
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"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."
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"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."
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"We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake."
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"Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what's good or bad for you."
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"If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost."
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"Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason."
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