Quotes About Discernment

And as for agreeing with him, gentlemen are so much wiser than we are, and so much better able to judge of– of worldly matters– don't you think?' 'Emphatically, No!

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

It doesn't matter if you've been working hard on something for six months. If you realize a track is wack, you have to throw it away. A lot of people can't do that.

Chess masters don't evaluate all the possible moves. They know how to discard 98 percent of the ones they could make and then focus on the best choice of the remaining lot. That's the way expertise works in other fields, too: Wise practitioners recognize familiar patterns and put their creativity, improvisation, and skill toward the marginal cases.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

I don't like talking about any projects till they solidify and take off.

It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

There is no quick way of making money. People come to you with tips for the races or offer the latest Ponzi scheme, but I can see them coming a mile off. I just go with the adage that if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

'Tis not every question that deserves an answer.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world - from religion to race.

You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.

My parents always told me to choose my friends very carefully and I learnt to live by that advice.

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

You could not have grown up in such a house, that had such businesses in it, without having a pretty good idea of what was what—of what could go into what; and what could come out. Do you follow?

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver!—PROVERBS 16:16

Keep your "antennae" out to pick up even the faintest glimmer of My Presence.

Listen to Me above the clamor of voices trying to distract you.

have equipped you for specific work that I will enable you to do. What things do you need to say no to in preparation for doing this work?

Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.