Hillel the Elder Quotes

Never judge. Step in their shoes.

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

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.

Before you Judge me, Try hard to Love me

Do not judge. Never presume to judge another human being anyway. That's up to heaven.

Next time you're about to judge someone, attempt to understand them instead.

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.

[T]he unsympathetic assessments we make of others are usually the result of nothing more sinister than our habit of looking at them in the wrong way, through lenses clouded by distraction, exhaustion and fear, which blind us to the fact that they are really, despite a thousand differences, just altered versions of ourselves: fellow fragile, uncertain, flawed beings likewise craving love and in urgent need of forgiveness.

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

We must take our friends as they are.

Our human tendency is to be impatient with the person who cannot see the truth that is so plain to us. We must be careful that our impatience is not interpreted as condemnation or rejection.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins

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.

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

I love taking people on that journey, which I feel like can open them up to seeing human beings a little more complexly. People that you originally don't like, maybe they have reasons for the way they are, and maybe we can start to understand each other a little better as opposed to being quick to judge and dismiss people.

Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.

People are starting to understand the other side's perspective and that's where empathy can sort of begin - once you quit judging other people but just understand where they're coming from.