Quotes About Discernment

I take everything with a grain of salt.

The Internet can be an enlightening place... you have to take it with a grain of salt.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.

One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.

Sometimes I'm gullible; sometimes I'm not.

It is always important to look beyond a pleasant visage.

SEE THROUGH THE FOG

we must choose our battles carefully. Some things are not worth fighting over, and some things are clearly not our battles.

Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. —Ephesians 5:10–11

The Lord doesn't see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. —1 Samuel 16:7

Never give advice until you are sure the other person wants it.

You can't just skip the boring parts. Of course I can skip the boring parts. How do you know they're boring if you don't read them? I can tell. Then you can't say you've read the whole play. I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Who knows? she said. Maybe you can't.

Voltaire once wrote, "Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Sir

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

What's the difference between a human being and an animal?" "Intelligence, I suppose." Audrey looked at me for guidance. "We're smarter. Wouldn't you agree?" I nodded. "As long as we're writing the tests.

Men may the wise atrenne, and naught atrede.

Nadie que esté bajo la influencia de la bebida sabe guardar un secreto: esto es indiscutible.

Opta por el no antes que por el sí cuando puedas hacer algo de lo que luego te arrepentirás.

And, in his noble heart, he pondered a moment and then soft unto himself he said, "Fie upon a Lord that will show no mercy, but will be as a lion, in word and in deed, both to those who are remorseful and afeared, as well as to the haughty unrepentant man, and who will judge the guilty and the innocent alike. That Lord has little of discernment, who, in such a case, knows of no distinction, but weighs arrogance and humility upon an equal scale.

Vergüenza ha de tener el gobernante que no tenga piedad, si actúa y habla como un león a los que están arrepentidos y temerosos, del mismo modo que a los poderosos y altaneros que persisten en sus propósitos. Un príncipe tiene escaso discernimiento si no sabe distinguir en casos así y pasa al orgullo por el mismo rasero que a la humildad.»

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.