Judgmental Thinking Quotes

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

Alas! we give our own coloring to the actions of others.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

In my personal and spiritual life, I reject that. I don't believe in that. I'm always trying to get my mind into a less judgmental place, making less rigid judgments about things like "perverse" versus "pure." But in terms of prose, those sorts of oppositions seem to work.

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma.

Physical fitness is a farce without self-control, judgment, and discretion, which are the three qualities of mind first to be dulled by and made incompetent by the use of alcohol

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

We do not actually know other people; we only know our judgments.

All hoods make not monks.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

The only antidote to anger is to eliminate the internal sentence: "If only you were more like me."

You can tell nothing from a man's appearance, nothing except the depths of your own prejudice.

When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.

When people talk about someone you have preconceived judgments.

It took me a long time to not think of the universe as a judgmental debit-credit system. I haven't completely shaken it, but I no longer think that I am overdrawn with God. Grace is not something you earn; its always there. I find this idea a lot more fun.

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.

I don't see the benefit in giving yourself a belief system that allows you to judge other people.

When somebody's different, it's so easy to dismiss what people say because of what they look like. They really want to judge the book by its cover.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.