Quotes About Discernment

And there are no shortcuts or substitutes for "constant practice" when it comes to developing spiritual discernment—

makes Satan's offers so alluring and so deceptive is that they look so right. The Devil is in the business of making sin look harmless, attractive, and promising. The problem is that Eve didn't stop to evaluate what was really happening. She didn't take the time to discern truth from error. She didn't stop to consider the cost and the consequences of what she was about to do.

Wild" is what we are whenever we disregard God and rely instead on the world's advice, or on what seems right in our own eyes.

Non vedo niente», dissi restituendo il cappello al mio amico.  «Al contrario, Watson, lei vede tutto, ma non riflette su ciò che vede. Non ha il coraggio di trarne delle deduzioni».

You have all the cleverness which makes a successful man. Have you the tact?

Dear me! Mr. Holmes, why, you are even a quicker smoker than I am myself." Holmes smiled. "I am a connoisseur," said he, taking another cigarette from the box — his fourth

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room.

But a girl always knows.

I would not tell them too much. Women are never to be entirely trusted,—not the best of them.

a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails.

By a man's finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his trouser-knees, by the callosities of his forefinger and thumb, by his expression, by his shirt-cuff — By each of these things a man's calling is plainly revealed. That all united should fail to enlighten the competent inquirer in any case is almost inconceivable.

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Frequently.

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

Oh I'm sure you're right, Auntie said. Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

But where is the jury who decides whether devotion is of the 'right' or the 'misguided' kind?

he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two.

he] understood that some things mattered and some things did not and that the happy people in this world were those who could easily and rapidly distinguish between the two. The term unhappiness referred to the feeling of taking the wrong things seriously.

He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

Instead of developing the child's own faculties of discernment, and teaching it to judge and think for itself, the teacher uses all his energies to stuff its head full of the ready-made thoughts of other people. The mistaken views of life, which spring from a false application of general ideas, have afterwards to be corrected by long years of experience; and it is seldom that they are wholly corrected.

And, as a general rule, it is more advisable to show your intelligence by saying nothing than by speaking out; for silence is a matter of prudence whilst speech has something in it of vanity