Quotes About Discernment

All our habits, tastes, and inclinations must be educated in harmony with the laws of life and health. By this means we may secure the very best physical conditions, and have mental clearness to discern between the evil and the good.—

Ninguna cosa que de alguna manera afecte nuestra paz es tan pequeña que él no la note. No hay en nuestra experiencia ningún pasaje tan oscuro que él no pueda leer, ni perplejidad tan grande que él no pueda desenredar…

you give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

For remember always the maxim: He who would know right must first know wrong!

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice

There's something happening here, I know it. It's right in front of my face, but I just can't see it.

You should love all. But you should not trust everyone. For, every human is not trustworthy. Yes! So, love all and trust only a few people. -Emeasoba George

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

The facts of two things being often found together is rather a reason for, than an objection to, separating them, in idea. Sometimes they are NOT found together, and then we may be puzzled if we have not trained ourselves to separate them.

We must avoid from the person before which legitimate and unlegitimate thingsor works are equal.

Who is right? How do we know? Where is the answer written? Perhaps it's not written anywhere ... or perhaps it is written all around us, in letters so big that we can't see them! Imagine that, we could be walking on a world where the answer is all around us, and we can't even see it!

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

Silence is the sanctuary of prudence.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

If a man cannot distinguish the difference between the pleasures of two consecutive nights, he has married too early.

Me es difícil resistirme a estas muestras de buenos modales. Tengo la impresión de que estas personas tan bien educadas jamás podrían hacerle nada malo a nadie. Yendo un poco más lejos, parece que sepan discernir a quién sí pueden hacérselo.

Let's have no beating about the bush. Not every yahoo in a first-night seat is my peer.

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

So of course when it came time to decide what to do with my life, I decided to go to seminary. What else do you do when you are in love with God?

And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." —Isaiah 30:21

Solía decir que algunas personas no eran capaces de distinguir y encontrar las perlas entre la arena, o únicamente tenían la fuerza de carácter para quitar la arena de unas cuantas perlas y terminaban sólo con una gargantilla.

She sighed as he left, wondering why it was becoming so difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys.