Quotes About Discernment

His mom always said that 90 percent of intelligence was knowing when to shut up.

just because you can, doesn't mean that you should (archeron)

Aren't you the one who always says that sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right?" "I also say that just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Sometimes it takes you longer for you to realize when a person doesn't have the best of intentions or when it is time to let a person go from your life.

It's people's own prerogative to be able to look at something and know the difference between 'this is what someone looks like with make-up on' and 'this is what they look like in real life.'

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

Forgive your enemy, but do not mistake him for a friend.

Believing absolutely everything that appears in print.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

The intelligent man makes certain reservations as to the choice of his listeners.

Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others

A wise man once told me, don't believe anything you hear until you've seen it with your own eyes," Halt said. Crowley looked up at him. "Who said that? Pritchard?" It sounded like the sort of thing their old mentor might say. Halt affected to think for a few seconds, then gave a slight smile. "No. I think it was me, actually. I can be very wise at times.

Jullie kijken ook nooit verder dan je neus lang is,' merkte Cassandra op. 'Ik ga wel.

Well, as my old mam used to say, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's probably a duck." "Very wise

There are fine cigars and cheap cigars, but there are no fine cheap cigars -- Winston Churchill

Careful. The easiest thing to spot is gaps of integrity in others.

to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

Another commandment, really an application of the commandment to love, is the prohibition against judging our brother's sins (Matthew 7:1-5). This is not a prohibition of discernment and virtuous discrimination, but the warning against identifying our neighbor by his sins and the pretense of being without sin ourselves.