Quotable Quotes by Editors Of Reader's Digest Page B

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    Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
    â€” B YRON J . L ANGENFIELD
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    Only God is in a position to look down on anyone.
    â€”S ARAH B ROWN
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    The unforgiving man assumes a judgment that not even the theologians has [sic] given to God.
    â€” S YDNEY J . H ARRIS
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    I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?
    â€” M AURICE M AETERLINCK
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    Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
    â€” H . G . W ELLS
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    Other people’s faults are like bees — if we don’t see them, they don’t harm us.
    â€”L UIS V IGIL
    Pensamientos y Observaciónes
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    Make no judgments where you have no compassion.
    â€”A NNE M C C AFFREY
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    How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
    â€” B ENJAMIN D ISRAELI
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    What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don’t like about ourselves.
    â€” W ILLIAM W HARTON
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    I don’t like a man to be efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.
    â€” F ELIX F RANKFRUTER
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    When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself.
    â€” A NONYMOUS
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    Ought is not a word we use to other people. It is a word we should reserve for ourselves.
    â€” S ISTER W ENDY B ECKETT
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    Perhaps no phenomenon contains so much destructive feeling as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
    â€” E RICH F ROMM
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    If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
    â€” M OTHER T ERESA OF C ALCUTTA
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    Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
    â€” M ARION B RADLEY
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    Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
    â€” H . L . M ENCKEN
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    This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault.
    â€” R OBERT M . H UTCHINS
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    That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.
    â€” R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON
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    We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerantly that I would be less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.
    â€” W ILLIAM A LLEN W HITE
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    We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.
    â€” H AROLD N ICOLSON
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    Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
    â€” F RIEDRICH N IETZSCHE
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    Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
    â€” M ARK T WAIN
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    Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
    â€” P ENNSYLVANIA D UTCH PROVERB
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    The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
    â€” A LBAN G OODIER
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    There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment.
    â€” M ALCOLM H EIN
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    Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.
    â€” G IACOMO L EOPARDI
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    When nobody around you seems to measure up, it’s time to check your yardstick.
    â€” B ILL L EMLEY
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    It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
    â€” A BRAHAM L INCOLN
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    There are certain small faults that offset great virtues. There are certain great faults that are forgotten in small virtues.
    â€” G RANTLAND R ICE W ATTS
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    Accept me as I am—only then will we discover each other.
    â€” F ROM F EDERICO F ELLINI’S
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    The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudices.
    â€” C LINT E ASTWOOD
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    Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often, as intolerance.
    â€” H ENRY W ARD B EECHER
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    Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.
    â€” C OUNTESS OF B LESSINGTON
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    Prejudice is a disease characterized by