“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.”
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Dorothy Day 55
Social activist 1897–1980Related quotes
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
(1884–1976) German artist
In the periodical 'Kunst und Künstler', 1914; as quoted in Expressionism', de:Wolf-Dieter Dube; Praeger Publishers, New York, 1973, p. 20
Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love
Variant: You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.
Source: The Rescue