Quotes About Discernment

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life. People only see what they are prepared to see.

What good is strength if you have no sense?

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Cicero said that even if his lifetime were to be doubled he would still not have time to waste on reading the lyric poets.

Another, less polite way of saying it: People with attention issues tend to have acute bullshit detectors. We hate hypocrisy maybe more than any other human failing, and we can spot it a mile away.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART for your heart will always know the answer. but if it tells you to strangle kittens or something then DON'T follow it anymore.I mean it's just a heart, right? It's not the Dalai lama.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

For the believer, faith is an organ of spiritual perception more dependable than the physical senses of hearing and of sight. 11:2

There is a time for all things, but I didn't know it. And that is precisely what beats so many men in Wall Street who are very far from being in the main sucker class. There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

Now, the point is not so much to buy as cheap as possible or go short at top prices, but to buy or sell at the right time.

I never want to buy stocks too cheap or too easily.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

A fool only watches the outward form; conversely, a wise one catches the inward aspect as well, which determines the reliable and authentic outcome.

Bad, and Wrong Enable you to learn, Good and Right.

One who lives in the garden of colourful flowers, it never becomes the fool from the dried and artificial flowers.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.