Best judgment & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We can hardly say that the Pharisees had an accurate ‘knowledge’ of man when they pointed to the sins (the real sins) of publicans and sinners. This judgment, which separated knowledge of man from self-knowledge, was as nothing in God’s eyes. The Jew did not have a better understanding because he was able to judge the heathen. In the sphere of abstract morality this could possibly be said, but this is not Biblical morality - O man, who judgest others!”

Men Said Real Self Eye Able Understanding Sin Judging Morality Judgment Jew Abstract Sinner Spheres Accurate Biblical Self Knowledge Heathen Pharisees

Book:Man: The Image of God

Source: Man: The Image of God

“Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that they are what they are. Then accept that they constitute what you've believed until now, and that you can transform them into beliefs that allow you to fully express who you really are. Without judgment, patiently begin working to change subconscious and limiting beliefs into true expressions of your authentic self.”

Self Light Belief Accepting Expression Judgment Adults Setting Settings Acknowledge Subconscious Default Authentic Self Belief In Self Limiting Beliefs

Author:Sue Thoele

“Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.”

World Self Force Results Confidence Judgment Relation Self Confidence Realization Internals

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.”

Self Order Jesus Speak Lord Position Listening Judgment Weakness Righteousness Reserves Again And Again Self Righteousness

Author:Pope Francis

“At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?”

Self Poor Behavior Judgment Defense Justification Self Defense Bad Behavior

Author:Dan Gelber

“Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.”

Self Belief Produce Behavior Judgment Expectations Consequence Outcomes Efficacy Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true motives of a critic keeps one's conscience both clear and at ease.”

Self Father Ability Clear Son Judgment Conscience Critics Ease Motive Self Control Discernment Good Judgment Clear Conscience

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Some virtues, when they become fashions, also become exaggerated. Just because nobody likes a judgmental attitude does not mean that there isn't a sort of spoiled, self-righteous hypocrisy when one man obsessively commands other men not to judge without knowing the circumstances without himself, too, knowing their circumstances behind their judgments.”

Men Mean Doe Self Behinds Attitude Knowing Virtue Fashion Judging Circumstances Judgment Likes Command Hypocrisy One Man Righteous Spoiled Exaggerated Judgmental Mental Attitude Self Righteous

Author:Criss Jami

“For as long as men and women have talked about war, they have talked about it in terms of right and wrong. And for almost as long, some among them have derided such talk, called it a charade, insisted that war lies beyond (or beneath) moral judgment. War is a world apart, where life itself is at stake, where human nature is reduced to its elemental forms, where self-interest and necessity prevail. Here men and women do what they must to save themselves and their communities, and morality and law have no place. Inter arma silent leges: in time of war the law is silent.”

Source: Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

“Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up- giving up of everything that belongs to you. What really belongs to you? Only the ego. Love consumes in its flames all preconceived ideas, prejudices and judgments, all those things which stem from the ego. Pure love is nothing but the emptying of the mind of all its fears and the tearing off of all masks. It exposes the Self as it is.”

Source: Awaken Children Vol. 4

“Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.”

Mind Self Judgment Over You

Author:Cheri Huber

“The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.”

People Self Religion Opinion Hell Atheism Judgment Saved Arrogance Almighty Congratulations Assured Loaded Hymns Cozy Judgment Day

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Self-righteousness and presumptive moral judgments pose a great danger in the political arena. To become convinced of the divine infallibility of one's personal predilections on a secular political issue is to play God, to assume to oneself the attributes of deity. It cultivates an arrogant intolerance of dissenting viewpoints and relegates one's political adversaries to the category of evil per se.”

“In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.”

Self Self Love Judgment And Love Praise Sincerity Discernment Applause Eminence Quickness

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.”

Thinking Men Self Done Happens Beautiful Causes Objects Ought Self Love Lovers Honor Judgment Committed Arise Great Men Preference Blinded Blunders

Author:Plato

“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation. He who chooses his plan for himself, employs all his faculties. He must use observation to see, reasoning and judgment to foresee, activity to gather materials for decision, discrimination to decide, and when he has decided, firmness and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision.”

World Needs Self Use Decision Plans Materials Activity Judgment Decided Discrimination Observation Reasoning Faculty Portions Self Control Imitation Deliberate Apes Firmness

Book:On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

“If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.”

Ifs Thinking Self Hard Easy Moral Judgment Where You Are Righteous Self Righteous Moral Judgment

Book:Class and feminism: a collection of essays from the Furies

Source: Class and feminism: a collection of essays from the Furies

“The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.”

Persons Has Beens Self Religion Opportunity Church Known Taken Rights Industry Exercise Judgment Conscience Fruit Organized Self Respect Robbery

Book:Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

Source: Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

“The Ayodhya judgment will work as a catalyst to maintain peace and unity in the country. This judgment has given a respect to belief and self esteem of the people of India, and it should be linked to self esteem of the country.”

People Should Self Country Belief Given Self Esteem Judgment Empowerment India Unity Esteem Linked Catalyst Peace And Unity

Author:Narendra Modi

“Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by the systematic repression of certain emotions and affects which, as such are normal components of human nature. Their repression leads to the constant tendency to indulge in certain kinds of value delusions and corresponding value judgments. The emotions and affects primarily concerned are revenge, hatred, malice, envy, the impulse to detract, and spite.”

Source: On Feeling, Knowing, and Valuing: Selected Writings

“Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.”

Ifs Self Silence Quiet Judgment Shame Tolerate Crave Secrecy

Author:Brené Brown

“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.”

“Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.”

Ifs Doe Self Memories Chance Mines Judgment Tools Difficulty Presses Judgement Confused Encounters Lacking Embarrassed Distrust Stunned Chance Encounters

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.”

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“Thinking is hard. Making value judgments is difficult. It places you at pure creation, because there are so many times you'll have to say, "I don't know. I just don't know." Yet still you'll have to decide. And so you'll have to choose. You'll have to make an arbitrary choice. Such a choice - a decision coming from no previous personal knowledge - is called pure creation. And the individual is aware, deeply aware, that in the making of such decisions is the Self created.”

Thinking Knows Inspirational Stills Self Hard Values Choices Individual Difficult Religious Decision Creation Pure Judgment Arbitrary Personal Knowledge

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”

“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

“A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.”

Men Self Self Esteem Judgment Independent Profound Esteem

Author:Ayn Rand

“It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.”

“When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience”

People Ifs May Self Belief Conditions Judgment Performances Imports Efficacy Discounts Self Efficacy

Author:Albert Bandura

“For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence”

People May Self Ability Levels Opinion Talent Activity Judgment Rely Competence Inference Self Efficacy Appraisal Limited Knowledge

Author:Albert Bandura

“Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous”

Self Circumstances Judgment Tasks Performances Arise Ambiguous Efficacy Self Efficacy Discrepancies Discrepancies Between

Author:Albert Bandura

“Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.”

“And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.”

People Needs Self Facts Feelings Judgment Ridiculous Ashamed About Yourself Ridiculous Things

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It is not realistic or hard-headed to solve problems and take action unguided by ultimate moral aims and values, although we all know some who claim that it is so. In my judgement, it is thoughtless folly. For it ignores the realities of human faith and of passion and of belief; forces ultimately more powerful than all the calculations of our economists or of our generals. Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.”

“It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.”

People Self Easier Judgment Overcoming

Author:Arianna Huffington

“We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.”

Needs Mind Self Judgment Negative Worthy Resistance Petty Sabotage Mind Set Not Worthy Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.”

Ifs Littles Self Artist Levels Opinion Higher Judgment Criticism Accomplish Disaster Self Criticism

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.”

Men World Giving Made Self Speak Sin Hell This World Giving Up Judgment Tasks Conviction Sinner Savior Word Of God Calculations Self Indulgent

Author:Ray Comfort

“Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.”

Thinking Men Mind Self Self Esteem He Man Judgment Self Confidence Esteem Rely Reliance Authentic Self

Author:Ayn Rand

“Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.”

Ifs Men Believe Humans Self Spirit Taught Holy Judgment Mouths Scripture Certainty Holy Spirit Ministry Majesty Gazing

Author:John Calvin

“I know for me, when I would drink, I circumvented my own self-protection and my own judgment and my own discrimination - the healthy kind of judgment and discrimination.”

Knows Kind Self My Own Drink Healthy Judgment Protection Discrimination Self Protection

Author:Alison Rosen

“It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.”

Looks Self Stuff Practice Honest Judgment Yoga Observing

Author:Tara Stiles

“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

“Kant regards the universalizability test for maxims as focused on a very special sort of situation: one where the agent is tempted to make an exception to a recognized duty out of self-preference. The universalizability test is supposed help the agent to see, in a particular case of moral judgment, that self-preference is not a satisfactory reason for exempting yourself from a duty you recognize. Kant thinks, as a matter of human nature, that this situation arises often enough and that we need a canon of judgment to guard against it.”

“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

“People are judged continuously everywhere on the most intimate level by the prices on their head. Most of them accept the judgment. It's very hard to have self-respect, or to maintain a state of creativity under these conditions.”

People Self Hard States Levels Accepting Creativity Conditions Judgment Intimate Self Respect Judged

Author:Michael Ventura

“Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”

Inspirational Different Self Moments Self Esteem Regret Circumstances Healthy Judgment Sick Abuse No Regrets I Regret Impeccable Four Agreements You Will Regret

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

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