A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection – and usually a little judgment.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.