Quotes About Discernment

But they do say that she is the cleverest of them all," Mrs. Pole had added, very properly. The people of Exeter had expressed such an opinion, and had been quite just in doing so. I do not know how it happens, but it always does happen, that everybody in every small town knows which is the brightest-witted in every family.

She is the best of them all," he said to himself, as he refolded the letter and put it back into his desk. I am not sure that it is well that a man should have any large number from whom to select a best; as, in such circumstances, he is so very apt to change his judgment from hour to hour.

I know him well; at least I know the inmost of his heart. Remember, child, a looker-on sees clearly the value of the move the player misses.

Friends are not to be picked up on the road-side every day; nor are they to be thrown away lightly.

El sabio no dice todo lo que piensa, pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice.

Es ignorancia no saber distinguir entre lo que necesita demostración y lo que no la necesita.

To get angry is easy, to get angry with the right person, the right moment and for the right reason is difficult.

A prudent person after all can pick something Even from an enemy.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something

Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

for it is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits; it is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician scientific proofs.

But in all cases we must guard most carefully against what is pleasant, and pleasure itself, because we are not impartial judges of it.

To feel or act towards the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way - is not easy, and it is not everyone that can do it, hence to do these things well is a rare, laudable and fine achievement.

Que no existe ningún otro sentido aparte de los cinco 424b 22 —me refiero a vista, oído, olfato, gusto y tacto—

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it

When in doubt, say nothing and move on.

A major part of his job was deciding when warnings could be ignored, when they could be dealt with at leisure—and when they had to be treated as real emergencies. If he paid equal attention to all the ship's cries for help, he would never get anything done. He

Nevertheless, when you did not know what you were looking for, it was important to avoid all prejudices and preconceptions; something that at first sight seemed irrelevant, or even nonsensical, might turn out to be a vital clue.

And sometimes, dispassionately, they had to weed.

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

A fool takes in everything he comes across, so that there is no room for anything useful to find a place

El mundo esta lleno de cosas evidentes en las que nadie se fija ni por casualidad

There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.