Quotes About Discernment

Be wise as a serpent and wary as a dove!

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Eh bien! I no see not that that frog has nothing of better than another.

So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

But how should I know whether they were boys or girls?" "Goodness sakes, mars Clay, don't de Good Book say? 'Sides, don't it call 'em de HE-brew chil'en? If dey was gals wouldn't dey be de SHE-brew chil'en? Some people dat kin read don't 'pear to take no notice when dey do read.

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

They read those playful trifles in the solidest terms, and decided without hesitancy that if there had ever been any doubt that Dave Wilson was a pudd'nhead — which there hadn't — this revelation removed that doubt for good and all.

Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

Often we see the situation (A) and the reaction (C) but are unaware of the interpretation (B).

Big things are often just little things that people notice.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

Big things are often just small things that are noticed. - Ed Kennedy

Una niña de once años es muchas cosas, pero no tonta.

Bi oju ri enu a pamo. Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.

When we wake up in the morning (he thought), it's the first task that lies ahead of us: the separation of the true from the false. We have to dismiss, to erase the mocking kingdoms made by sleep. But at the close of day it was the other way round, and we sought the untrue and the fictitious, sometimes snapping ourselves awake in our hunger for nonsensical connections.

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

One of the great needs of mankind is to be lifted above the morass of false propaganda.

Love is not wisdom, wisdom is not love. Keep that.

unthinkingly exposed themselves to so much deception that they do not even realize they are being deceived.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." Romans 12:2

Spiritual discernment involves using God's Word as the standard for distinguishing and separating ideas and behaviors. It distinguishes and separates truth from falsehood, darkness from light, healthy from unhealthy, sound from unsound, and good from evil, based on the Bible's plumb line.

If you are unprepared to live the way God wants you to, chances are, you'll reject sound teaching and will simply gravitate toward teachers who will tell you what you want to hear.

God had already told Adam and Eve what was right and what was wrong. But Satan said, in essence, "That's his opinion; you're entitled to your own opinion—you can make your own decisions about what is right and wrong.