Quotes About Discernment

If it's not a "Hell Yes!" then it's a "Hell No!"...it's that simple.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

As my English teacher used to tell me, if you can't think of the right thing to say, say nothing at all.

it's owing to Roth and the handful of others like her who know

It's possible to like bad people, but liking them doesn't make them good.

Address only those problems that are true problems to you, and don't create or imagine problems because someone else thinks you have them, no matter if that person is family, friend, or expert.

Read, listen, and learn constantly, but always sift what you learn through the strainer of your own personal beliefs and parenting philosophy.

But I know a lie when I hear one.

The greatest misfortune in the world is to have more learning than common sense.

But we're both old enough to know things now, and that's good." "What things?" "When to shut up, mainly.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

I don't think he is a bad man," Clemenceau would sometimes say of Wilson, "but I have not yet made up my mind as to how much of him is good."35

in wine, the truth

Dit is de pest met mensen: als ze eenmaal geloven bestaat het gevaar dat ze alles aannemen.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

When it comes to politics and women, you have to taste all the sauces, but you must never let either one or the other give you indigestion.

Una mujer perspicaz —continúa ella— adivina al pedante en la tercera frase, y es capaz de ver el talento del que guarda silencio.

Era usted un buen fotógrafo porque fotografiar es encuadrar, y encuadrar es elegir y excluir. Salvar unas cosas y condenar otras. No todo el mundo puede hacer eso: erguirse juez de cuanto pasa alrededor. Nadie que ame de verdad puede dictar esa clase de sentencias.

En la vida lo malo no es conocer, sino mostrar que se conoce

Una cosa es una cosa, y otra cosa es otra cosa.

En la vida lo malo no es conocer, sino mostrar que se conoce. Iñigo Balboa