Quotes About Discernment

Good Advice You've a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he may forget men who are the rule, as their exception;-- exclusive only of the case in which he is pushed straight to such men by a still stronger instinct, as a discerner in the great and exceptional sense.

Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes indiscriminately: it does not like to say Yes; better to say No, but best of all to say nothing.

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

The discerning one walketh amongst men as amongst animals.

All of life is a dispute about tastes.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn

Of inference, all are capable; of judgment, only a few.

he who hears only a Will to Truth in the background, and nothing else, cannot certainly boast of the sharpest ears.

suffers fools

Quantity impresses, and anyone can appreciate it at first sight. Quality isn't as obvious, or as easy to appreciate. As if that weren't enough, quantity is easier to produce, less labor-intensive, cheaper, less risky than saying: Not this.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The people of western North Carolina are wise and discerning.

You must be wise, but not too wise.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.