Quotes About Not Being Judgmental

#1. When you call me judgmental are you not being judgmental? After all, you have also just judged me as being judgmental.

DeBorrah K. Ogans

#2. Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

Michael Sandel

#3. Acting is kind of a forced compassion, where you learn that given certain circumstances, you can feel and do things that you never thought yourself capable of. And so it stops you from being super-judgmental.

Susan Sarandon

#4. This was how Christians had fallen under the umbrella of being judgmental and narrow-minded. The idea that one sin could be singled out as the worst, the area God disliked most.

Karen Kingsbury

#5. When we know our true nature, especially the functioning of the mind, we stop being judgmental and become an inspiration and support to others.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#6. No one ever says you're being judgmental if you think something is right or good or healthy. Only the opposite - only if you don't like it and only if they do like it.

J.D. Robb

#7. The Vicar's talk was not always inspiriting: he had escaped being a Pharisee, but he had not escaped that low estimate of possibilities which we rather hastily arrive at as an inference from our own failure.

George Eliot

#8. I believe that if we build sincere friendships, without being judgmental, the chances of our message being accepted are greater.

H.H. Fowler

#9. Explain to me how you having a problem with me is my problem ...

Dan Pearce

#10. And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

Ned Vizzini

#11. When being extremely judgmental about something, we are likely to narrow our eyes.

Merriam-Webster

#12. When one says, I won't judge you for that, what they're really saying is, I am judging you for that. Think about it. If you walk into my house and I tell you, "I won't judge you for wearing those pants," what am I really saying?

Dan Pearce

#13. Even when people are so judgmental about what you wear or your weight you just have to step away and be like, 'I'm a normal, fine human being.'

Leighton Meester

#14. Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish the fact that everyone else is going to hell.

Andy Stanley

#15. They're being really judgmental.

P.C. Cast

#16. Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.

Barbara Sher

#17. The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental.

Julian Baggini

#18. I don't ever want anyone to think that I'm being judgmental. I gotta do everything I can do to not be preachy.

Rivers Cuomo

#19. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.

Dan Pearce

#20. I wonder whether our adoption of Shrink-ese as a second language, the move from religious phrases of judgment to secular words of acceptance, hasn't also produced a moral lobotomy. In the reluctance, the aversion to being judgmental, are we disabled from making any judgments at all?

Ellen Goodman

#21. Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Lisa Ling

#22. Anger is a signal that you're distracted by judgmental or punitive thinking, and that some precious need of yours is being ignored.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#23. Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.

Billy Graham

#24. I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.

Oscar Wilde

#25. I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.

Red Haircrow

#26. To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

Thomas Sowell

#27. I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

Malachy McCourt

#28. The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?

Dan Pearce

#29. How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost?

Dan Barker

#30. One of the things I think we're learning to do as the twelfth insight emerges is to be discerning without being judgmental, because condemning someone certainly feels like a comic event that brings other things back on you.

James Redfield

#31. Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.

Nicholas Kristof

#32. Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

David W. Earle

#33. One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

Kevin Sessums

#34. I am never going to be less sensitive so that you feel better about being judgmental toward me.

Dan Pearce

#35. The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

Criss Jami

#36. You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions ... no matter what the question is ... without being judgmental.

Josh McDowell

#37. I want to help people understand themselves a little bit better, to stop being so critical and judgmental of themselves, and to help them understand why they are going through some of the difficult things in their lives.

Echo Bodine

#38. If you want to see Jesus; guess what? You just might have to get accustomed to being called judgmental.

DeBorrah K. Ogans

#39. Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Barbara Sher

#40. People love to say, 'I love that person even though ... ' But let's be honest. Genuine love is never followed with the words 'even though.

Dan Pearce

#41. We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from the judgmental eyes of others. Privacy is a core condition of being a free person.

Glenn Greenwald

#42. Personally, I don't find swearing offensive. I do find, backstabbing, lying, being a judgmental asshole, cheating and fucking people over offensive, but not swearing.

Brooke Hampton

#43. Criticizing yourself all the time or being overly judgmental of a situation is like wearing dark sunglasses indoors.

Matthew McKay

#44. Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.

Dean Koontz

#45. I spent a lot of time feeling scandalized, and I loved it. There is nothing more fun than being young and judgmental.

Mara Wilson