Lily Collins Quotes

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

In order to practice dialogue, you need to be able to set aside your assumptions and try to listen more than you want to talk. It's not always politically correct to be able to do that, but it can give you a better sense of the reality.

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.

What we do not understand we have no right to judge

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Replace judgment with curiosity.

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

I just want to be more willing to listen to many people and be cautious about what I'm doing.

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot, in all conscience, accept any form of prejudice.

When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'

Good acting should teach people to understand rather than judge.

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

I don't want people to judge books by their cover, I want people to be open minded to the rest of the world.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

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

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Don't make assumptions.

I'm very judgmental person. It's one of my faults.