Quotes About Discernment

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

I learned it's easier not to say anything at all. You mention something, even a throwaway comment, and it draws attention. People want to know more. It was easier to never mention it in the first place.

Iadul sunt ceilalti.

Sometimes a person's first assumption was very telling. It revealed how they perceived the situation.

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.

Learn when's a good time to shut up

Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

I still have a lot of pleasure doing them, but as time goes by I come to appreciate more clearly which paintings are good and which should be discarded.

You have to be careful when you're getting feedback because people will give you conflicting feedback all the time, but ultimately you end up following your own inner guide.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

If you're a person who complains about everything all the time, then you're just the boy who cried 'wolf.' But if you do it on occasion and about the right reasons, then people listen.

Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

There are some virtues to not saying what you think all the time.

My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this.

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

The only two men I have time for are Barack Obama and my trainer.