Quotes About Discernment

You are also bothered by things others may hardly notice, such as the sound of children chewing with their mouth open, jangling keys in your partner's pocket, or a bit of a whine added to a request.

there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.

Forse dovresti imparare a capire chi sono gli amici e chi i nemici.

Mia madre vedeva sempre il male dove con mio grande fastidio si scopriva presto o tardi che il male c'era davvero, e il suo occhio strabico pareva fatto apposta per individuare i movimenti segreti del rione.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

Was this what it meant to have the eye? To be able to discern a distinction in quality so subtle as to be invisible to the man on the street?

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

If you cant distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldnt undertake philanthropic work.

It is a fact that, being a quick reader, apart from enabling a person to study good books such as Macaulay and Gibbon, enables a person to read a lot of bad books as well.

La objetividad será aquello que la razón discierne como naturaleza del mundo, cuyas figuras sucesivas son por eso mismo fenómenos o expresiones de un fundamento.

A person in any walk of life is brilliant only if s/he is being admired by intelligent not sycophants or stupids.

A person should not be so duffer to get carried away as supporter to the preaching words of the self-seekers who ask always the people to love themselves.

A person should not befool oneself rather than others by pretending to not understanding the dubious characters around oneself as the supporter people because the heart knows everything.

A person should not judge too quickly, but that does not mean to not doubt and let go the wily people easily.

A person who can actually understand and identify the people who often deceive and bluff , even slight indication is enough; but those whose mind is empty or heart is dirty, it is not only tough but impossible to convince them as even the foolproof evidence against the liar/sweet talker is trashed by them as worthless stuff.

A person who can not see own nature clearly is proportionately not able to look distinctly into the character of others, and so naturally mistakes foes for friends from the nearby people.