Quotes About Discernment

Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it. It should be capable of shutting its doors sometimes, or it may be found a little drafty.

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. —Chinese Proverb

Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous.

Law XIII. THE DELIVERY OF MEDICAL CARE IS TO DO AS MUCH NOTHING AS POSSIBLE

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

knew nonpoisonous snakes from the baddies, a lesson she still remembered

Spiritual intuition alerts us when we sense that something is not right or when we just "know" this isn't the person for us or the place for us to be in. We know these things without any overt knowledge or concrete information as to why we know them.

It's not safe to love everyone.

The world will probably not look brighter after we've eaten, but we'll be able to see in the dark better." She

Hujan mengenal baik pohon, jalan, dan selokan – swaranya bisa dibeda-bedakan; kau akan mendengarnya meski sudah kaututup pintu atau jendela. Meski pun sudah kaumatikan lampu. Hujan, yang tahu benar membeda-bedakan, telah jatuh di pohon, jalan, dan selokan – menyihirmu agar sama sekali tak sempat mengaduh waktu menangkap wahyu yang harus kau rahasiakan

I want to tell you something but good taste Restrains me

Most people wouldn't know the truth if it bit them in the ass and paid for the privilege.