Quotes about judging others

You cannot, you must not, judge the past by the present; you must try to see it in its own terms and values, if you are to have any inkling of it. You may not like what you see, but do not on that account fall into the error of trying to adjust it to suit your own vision of what it ought to have been.

We know the axes on which we should judge, and age has never been one.

Kaladin turned to Moash. “Why do they treat us so, Moash? Because they know they should be better than they are. Because they see discipline in bridgemen, and it embarrasses them. Rather than bettering themselves, they take the easier road of jeering at us.”

Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.

We seldom call any body lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some Service.

“It is easy to judge evil unmixed,” replied Gwydion. “But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.”

'Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.

If I think you’re my problem, I’m insane.

Would an alien outsider judge America’s performance by My Lai and Wounded Knee or by Lincoln and Jefferson?

As we shall see later, making yourself right and others wrong is one of the principal egoic mind patterns, one of the main forms of unconsciousness. In other words, the content of the ego may change; the mind structure that keeps it alive does not.

What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.