Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I think people always misjudge me.

It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand.

People who are criticizing... don't really get it, because if they did, they would like it.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

If you would judge, understand.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

O, would some Power give us, To see ourselves as others see us!

The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn't realize that me being such a people-watcher was even a gift at all.

Even if you see me fighting, don't assume I am a bad person.

I think people can be quick to judge. The people that know me, they know what I am like.

If you judge me only by my profession, you don't know me at all. Those people who do that? They'll never know me.

Some people have called me arrogant or believe that is my reputation, which is far from what I really am like.

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself