Robert Sapolsky Quotes

I always want to listen with an open mind.

I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people.

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Perhaps it is as well to keep an open and charitable mind, and to try to understand why people do things instead of condemning the acts themselves

Our opinions are less important than the spirit and temper with which they possess us, and even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in a broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

Replace judgment with curiosity.

I've gotten really good at not judging characters.

As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

As a person I don't judge others because I have no idea what circumstances they are in.

Everyone needs an open mind and an accepting heart. With a combination of these two aspects, you will be able to communicate sensibly.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.

Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.