Quotes About Discernment

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

La mauvaise musique est jouée tous les jours, la bonne ignorée.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

I am surrounded by such useless clods. If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he'd peck at it.

Ignoring that which is false is also a knowing. Thus—learning. To learn is to grow and to grow is to live. You may practice forgetting and thus learn.

How easy it is to follow our thoughts instead of our senses

On se bat quand il le faut, et pas lorsqu'on en a le cœur!

Your mission as a trader is to filter only the very best trade setups, which is what successful traders often do.

Dad just smiled wryly. "You'll learn, Frank, that when you're up there're hundreds of people who'll claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one of them will buy you a cup of coffee. If I had it to do over again, I'd select my friends more carefully. I do have a couple of good friends. They're not wealthy, but one of them got me my job in the post office.

Don't be too hasty, don't take somebody else's opinion without testing it.

Niet zo haastig,' zei de geestelijke, 'neem niet de mening van een ander over zonder na te denken. Ik heb je het verhaal letterlijk zo verteld als het in de tekst staat. Van misleiden staat daarin niets.

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary.

Truth comes out in wine.

Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.

We check everything to make sure it is pure and of the highest quality. There is good wine and bad wine; we buy only the good wine.

Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco?

There are some pretty darn good bottles of wine for $50. I think I can tell that from a bottle of wine that costs $15 or $20.

You can't simplify my taste and say, 'Parker likes big wines,' because it's just not true.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.