Quotes About Discernment

You don't always have to run. Take good time to watch first, then decide.

I have no time for babbling foolishness." "Don't be so hasty," said Victor. "There's always time for babbling.

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

There is a time to deliberate... and a time to act. Learn to recognize which is which, and act accordingly.

We stop practice every time we see one of our players not blocking out.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

There's a lot of smoke being blown at you, but this is no new sport to me; I've been doing it a long time, I'm used to it and I see it coming immediately the minute it gets into our realm.

...Mama used to say that when you don't know what to do, do nothing. She meant you can try too hard to solve a problem. If you give it a little time, the answer might just come to you plain as day.

You only know that you're smart because you're around dumb people from time to time!

Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.

And sometimes it takes a kid to show adults the truth.

Reason, you'll always be half-blind.

We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

Make it a rule, you know, to believe only half the world says.

True forgiveness is not a lack of discernment or the product of fuzzy thinking. It is a "selective remembering." We choose to remember the love we experienced, and to let go of the rest as the illusion it really was.

even the most commonplace man knows a great deal more concerning any fellow-man than does even the cleverest, shrewdest woman.

In reading a recent novel, I myself was convicted by a comment the mother makes to her adult daughter: 'My dear, you've missed so many opportunities to say nothing.' We do miss these opportunities, as well as opportunities to say less and say it more judiciously. And so we miss particular delights of finding words and speaking them into silences big enough to allow them to be heard.

I've always believed that a person is smart. It's people that are stupid.

You're right not to talk. It's a sort of higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.

You're right not to talk. It's sort of a higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.

Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on one hand and on the other the terrors that beset those who see threat everywhere. . . . Granting the perils of the world, it is potentially a very costly indulgence to fear indiscriminately, and to try to stimulate fear in others, just for the excitement of it, or because to do so channels anxiety or loneliness or prejudice or resentment into an emotion that can seem to those who indulge it like shrewdness or courage or patriotism.

Algunos hombres, algunas mujeres, tienen una sensibilidad más intensa que otros, sienten y perciben cosas que a los demás nos pasan desapercibidas.