Gary Zukav Quotes

Fools measure actions, after they are done, by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right. The former look to the end, to judge of the act. Let me look to the act, and leave the end with God.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

The first theme that every audience can get easily everywhere in the world is the theme of judgment. You are constantly judging if this character is doing something wrong or right, or the other character is doing something right or wrong.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I would not hold that we must judge by the favorable or adverse result alone whether an undertaking was just or unjust.

Many an act that man does is right or wrong according to the time and place which form, so to speak, its context; strip it of its surrounding circumstances, and you tear away its meaning. Gentlemen reformers, beware of this common practice of yours! Beware of calling an act evil on Tuesday because that same act was evil on Monday!

If anybody has done bad things to me, then I must have done the same to them.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

I did some things to some people that was downright evil. Is it karma coming back to me - so much drama.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

Beings are owners of their actions, heirs of their actions; they originate from their actions, are bound to their actions, have their actions as their refuge. It is action that distinguishes beings as inferior and superior.

It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.

I wouldn't judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits - the relevant fruits - are, I'd say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice.

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

Judge not others unless you're prepared to be judged!

Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil