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“Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.”

Eye Sleep Habit Judgment

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.”

Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution

“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.”

Humans Evil Understanding Views Moral Novel Judging Habit Morality Judgment Stupidity Absence Readiness Immorality Pernicious Moral Judgment

Author:Milan Kundera

“This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.”

Names Quality Known Example Pride Habit Judgment Manners Selfishness Fashionable Breeding Flattering Concealing Good Breeding Dexterity

Book:The Fable of the Bees

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.”

People Desire Found Sex Particular Habit Taste Judgment Areas Consolation

Book:Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

Source: Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

“Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.”

Men Looks Character Habit Conversation Judgment Appearance Judged

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.”

Persons Self Character Feelings Action Powerful Depends Habit Discipline Judgment Aspiration Self Discipline Good Person Good Character

Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

“Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.”

Passion Watches Habit Battle Judgment Everyday Details Everyday Life Small Details Great Battle

Author:John Lubbock

“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”

Men Giving May Voice Rich He Man Bears Habit Judgment Ears Every Man Thee Fancy Reserves Quarrels Purses Entrances Censure Apparel Gaudy Important Hamlet Polonius

Author:William Shakespeare

“I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.”

People Persons Self Courses Numbers Practice Kindness Meditation Habit Benefits Judgment Mindfulness Criticism Ruthless Vary Loving Kindness Old Habits Meditation Mindfulness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“All of us have many habits of whose import we are quite unaware, since they were formed without our knowing what we were about. Consequently they possess us, rather than we them. They move us; they control us. Unless we become aware of what they accomplish, and pass judgment upon the worth of the result, we do not control them.”

Moving Results Knowing Habit Judgment Accomplish Imports

Book:Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Source: Democracy and Education - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

“Self-judgment continues to arise - it's a strong habit - but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.”

Made Self Facts Stories Strong Habit Judgment Conscious Commitment Arise Feeding Unworthy

Author:Tara Brach

“I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”

Made Habit Judgment Patience Victim Curious Bores Reserves Veteran Great Gatsby Important Great Gatsby Nick Great Gatsby Nick Carraway

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works