Axl Rose Quotes

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Everybody judges a book by its cover. I can look at 50 books and say every one of those books is bad. Then you read one, and you can say, 'This book is amazing.' That's the same with meeting people.

What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Never judge a cover by its book.

You cannot judge a book by its contents.

It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'

Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me.

The more opinions you have, the less you see.

The mistake we make with many people is that we assume that we have the model. It is a type of condescension.

He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.

Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.

We were raised to believe that our way of seeing the world was the only way.

It's just sad that one's attitude is always speculated, even if you've not done something.

The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always a partial truth.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are.

All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie.

Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do. We assume that others think the way we think, feel the way we feel, judge the way we judge, and abuse the way we abuse. This is the biggest assumption that humans make.

You can have examples of reasons to hate people, but if you analyze those reasons it's like, Oh, I'm hating that person based on one thing they did, but I don't actually know them well enough to hate them.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.