It is easier to judge a man than to know him.
From Leaving No Stone Unthrown, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The man who feeds the pigeons by the laundromat shouted at a woman this morning, and I had him finished inside of four seconds. Cruel, I thought, and went back to the wire. Then she came back out with his gloves, which he had left on the bench, and he thanked her twice and called her by name. I have watched him three winters and would have told you I knew him; what I had was a short list of the times he was loud. It is easier to judge a man than to know him, and judging takes about as long as it took me to be wrong. Switch says I do the same thing to the crow on the transformer, and I have not yet worked out a defense.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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More like it
- The problem with positive thinking is that somebody else defines positive.
- There are few judgments made less true by being made less harsh.
- Living in a black-and-white world drains life not only of its color, but its wisdom.
- We expect life to treat us all the same though we each ask for something different.
- Not every light lights the way home.
- Those who are lost try hardest to get others to follow.