Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.
We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. This relates to respect for each other and carelessness is personally offensive.
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.