Quotes About Discernment

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Never allow your heart to convince your mind that something you know is wrong, is right.

Our children aren't stupid, and they're not naive. They see when adults around them act hypocritically. They see what we value and believe by our actions, not our words.

There ought to be some mark by which to distinguish good people from bad.

A wise man looks the other way.

A medida que te quedas en un sitio, las cosas y las personas se van destapando, pudriéndose, y se ponen a apestar a propósito para ti.

There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding.

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.

If you want to be happy, never ask for the gift of discernment.

This was a girl who could tell the difference between the page that perishes and the page that endures.

He was a firm believer in that old saying, a skunk smells it own hole first.

desconfia sempre dos que mais falam, sejam homens ou mulheres. (Linha reta e linha curva)

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.

De modo geral, os homens julgam mais com os olhos do que com o tato: todos podem ver, mas poucos são capazes de sentir. Todos veem nossa aparência, poucos sentem o que realmente somos [...]

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.

Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn't he?

I don't underestimate knowledge. But we get into trouble when we confuse it with truth.

I think this is one of the situations where there is no right choice. We have to pray that we make the choice that is the least wrong.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.