We all tend to judge. And that’s ok, as judgment is basically our opinion of someone, and of course, we all have the right to form one.
However, judging others is often based on partial information, and that’s where the problem lies because that’s the situation when our judgments may be inaccurate.
Here is a great collection of wrongly judged quotes to help you keep your judgments from becoming wrong and ultimately guide you to improve yourself.
Many famous people talked about bad judgments.
I collected their motivational quotes from various online sources to help you change the way you think about people, grow your mindset, and let go of judging.
Let’s start!
10 Best Wrongly Judged Quotes
1. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” ― Rita Mae Brown
2. “Trouble is the place where you find yourself when your judgment malfunction.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
3. “Why judge when it’s only a matter of perception.” — Haresh Sippy
4. “The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.” — Michael J. Fox
5. “Stop judging others, and you’ll save your inner peace.” — Lauren Levine
6. “Judging a person does not define who they are. It defines who you are” — Kristen Stewart
7. “When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.” — Swami Dhyan Giten
8. “Only the shallow judge others, those with character know to judge themselves before they judge others.” — Abhijit Naskar
9. “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” — Mother Teresa
10. “Society judges people by their successes. I get attracted by their dedication, simplicity, and humility.” ― Debasish Mridha
Inspirational Quotes About Being Wrongly Judged
1. “Step beyond right and wrong, resist passing judgment, and cut off people who judge.” — Unknown
2. “Your job isn’t to judge. Your job isn’t to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.” — Joel Osteen
3. “Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.” — Jean de La Fontaine
4. “Don’t pass judgment on others, or you might be judged yourself.” — Brian Cohen
5. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” — Unknown
6. “Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.” — Traci Lea LaRussa
7. “No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.” — Napoleon Hill
8. “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” — Henry Ward Beecher
9. “Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.” — Jonathan Jackson
10. “Don’t judge too harshly, for if your weaknesses were to be placed under your footsteps, most likely you would stumble and fall as well.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
11. “Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don’t whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.” — James F. Amos
12. “The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others.” — Deepak Chopra
13. “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?” — Leo Buscaglia
14. “How would your life be different if…you stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” — Steve Maraboli
15. “If you find it necessary to judge someone by their past, don’t be surprised when they find it necessary to put you there.” — Unknown
16. “Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.” — John 7:24 KJV
17. “Let’s stop judging others and relieve them of the heavy burden they are carrying on their shoulders because of us.” ― Saurabh Sharma
18. “When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.” — Russian proverb
19. “Who you’ve been and what you’ve experienced in the past isn’t good… and it isn’t bad. You might not know the whole story.” — Denise Linn
20. “Don’t judge someone by the opinion of others. Surround yourself with a small circle of people who tend to work on themselves rather than judge others. ” — Lauren Levine
Wrongly Judged Life Quotes
1. “Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” — Carl Jung
2. “How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!” — Elizabeth Gaskell
3. “Every time you judge someone else, you reveal an unhealed part of yourself.” — Unknown
4. “The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.” — William Hazlitt
5. “By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.” — Ashly Lorenzana
6. “I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.” — Deepak Chopra
7. “We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.” — Sydney J. Harris
8. “Faultfinders usually are not content with their own situations in life and therefore try to make others miserable by judging them.”― Greg Gordon
9. “Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.” — Paul Valery
10. “By judging others, we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
11. “If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.” — John A. Sanford
12. “Judging is acting on limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.” ― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
13. “Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realized that he has already judged that people judge others.” — Unknown
14. “None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.” — Charles H. Spurgeon
15. “Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
16. “How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong!” — Sophocles
17. “Still, it was a sad state of the world that people judged others not by the best that they could be but by the worst thought in their own hearts.” — Elizabeth Hoyt
18. “Judgement prevents us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.” — Unknown
19. “The soul’s impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.” — Epictetus
20. “People who judge others tell more about who they are than who they judge.” — Unknown
Wise Wrongly Judged Quotes
1. “Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.” — Unknown
2. “I got it from my good judgment,” he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? “I got it from my bad judgment.” — Sydney J. Harris
3. “Before pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean.” — Bob Marley
4. “I don’t waste my time judging other people because I am too busy criticizing myself.” — Unknown
5. “To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.” — Elvis Presley
6. “Do not judge others. Be your own judge, and you will be truly happy. If you try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers.” — Unknown
7. “Don’t judge people for the choices they make when you don’t know the options they had to choose from.” — Unknown
8. “The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.” — Michael J. Fox
9. “The happiest people I know are evaluating and improving themselves. The unhappy people are usually evaluating and judging others.” — Unknown
10. “Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.” — Paul Valery
11. “We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong… There are good laws, and there are occasionally bad laws, and it conforms to the highest traditions of a free society to offer resistance to bad laws and to disobey them.” — Alexander Bickel
12. “There’s a story behind every person. There’s a reason why they are the way they are. Think about that before you judge someone.” — Unknown
13. “Before you assume, learn the facts. Before you judge, understand why. Before you hurt someone, feel. Before you speak, think.” — Unknown
14. “To judge others is human. To keep your opinions to yourself is class.” — Unknown
15. “Stop judging how far people still have to go. Start celebrating how far they’ve come.” — Unknown
16. “We all have different perspectives on life. We all do make different decisions in life each day based on our convictions. We may take wrong or right decisions knowingly and or unknowingly. We may regard the decisions of others as right or wrong. We may have right or wrong reasons to judge others. We have a choice to condemn or uplift others regardless of their situation. May we, instead of finding reasons to condemn, find reasons to uplift others.” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
17. “Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.” — Unknown
18. “Be curious, not judgemental.” — Walt Whitman
19. “Whether you’re president or speaker, if you’re wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. That’s what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi – and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.” — Louie Gohmert
20. “When someone judges you, it isn’t actually about you. It’s about them and their own insecurities, limitations, and needs.” — Unknown
To Conclude
I hope my collection of wrongly judged quotes made you realize that judging other people can often be based on our own insecurities.
By changing your perspective on forming an opinion of someone, you will change your life, as you will become less judgmental and thus less likely to form a wrong judgment.
Don’t hesitate to share these judgemental quotes with your loved ones and post some on your social media as well to inspire other people to stop making judgments.For more interesting content and powerful quotes that hit hard, visit our page!
