Quotes About Discernment

not to busy myself about vain things, and not easily to believe those things, which are commonly spoken

A man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgement on another's acts.

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are you thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

38. Look into their minds, at what the wise do and what they don't.

That cucumber is bitter, so toss it out!

God give me patience to reconcile with what I am not able to change. Give me strength to change what I can. And give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.

No one can be a sound judge if he does not give due weight to convincing suspicions.

And so—it can't be repeated often enough—you should love after you have judged, not judge after you have loved.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

I'm developing a knack for this, I can sniff out hidden misery in others now with hardly any effort at all.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.

In so many ways I'm just thankful for common sense. Common sense keeps you out of trouble.

Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you, but concentrate instead on those who will appreciate your responsibility to them, and, likewise, feel responsible to you.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by... What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

Premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along.

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.

There are many who would take my time. I shun them.