Quotes About Discernment

Your mind should be like a room with many open windows," Bapuji told me. "Let the breeze flow in from all, but refuse to be blown away by any one.

For it's as if by chance that I have gained This state so hard to find, wherein to help myself. If now, while having such discernment, I am once again consigned to hell, I am as if benumbed by sorcery, As if reduced to total mindlessness. I do not know what dulls my wits. O what is it that has me in its grip?

Thus life passes quickly, meaningless. True discernment—hard it is to have! How therefore shall we ever find the means To curb the futile wanderings of the mind?

There's need to understand the spirit that dwells in you than listening to the voice that misleads your decision.

Truth is the daughter of time.

If you feel the need to be stupid, do so elsewhere.

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense.

The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

You must learn what to fear and what not to fear.

God, give me courage to do what I can, humility to admit what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference.

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

The woman could get a confession faster than a priest.

sea of knowledge is very vast and life is short–so one should suck out the essence of all learning and cast aside the useless information by clearly sifting them through one's discertion.]

Lao Tzu, the Chinese philosopher, said, "Know yourself. Know what is good. Know when to stop.

Sensitivity is not weakness or vulnerability. It is clarity of perception and allow judicious, precise action.

Discretion of speech, is more than eloquence.

So in most things men are ready to abuse themselves in thinking the greatest means to be best, when it should be the fittest.

And let a man beware, how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.

To take advice of some few friends, is ever honorable; for lookers-on many times see more than gamesters; and the vale best discovereth the hill.

In the Raphael Room, the secret turned out to be that only some of the paintings were made by the great master; the rest were made by students. I had liked the ones by Raphael. This was a big jab for my self-confidence in my ability to appreciate art.

People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.