Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge." -Elinor Dashwood

You can only see in others what is inside of you.

A world view is probably an expression of self.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

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

You never want to judge your character.

I'm really good at judging and observing other people, but not myself.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

Everyone has understood me in his own way. But I would have to understand myself first in order to judge - and so far, I haven't.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.