critical judgement Quotes

“Good children are defined as meek, considerate, unselfish and perfectly law-abiding. Such rules allow no place for vitality, spontaneity, inner freedom, inner independence and critical judgment. These rules cause parents, even well-intentioned ones, to abandon their children. Such abandonment creates the toxic shame I’ve been describing.

“When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”

“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.”

“If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge.”

“Compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so.”

“It is the education which gives a man a clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them and a force in urging them.”