Quotes About Discernment

He who would distinguish the true from the false must have an adequate idea of what is true and false.

Tengo un instinto…! Yo no sabré hacer las cosas, pero las sé juzgar

I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.

Silence is the mother of truth

Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into it, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinborough.

if you judge a book by its cover,a fish will be thinking how stupid it looks its whole life.

Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou owest, all thou hast, nor all thou canst.

Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever of folly

Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas. One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.

Knowledge doesn't really care. Wisdom does.

Bookstores should be broken down into two sections: books that suck and books that don't suck.

Through the cultivation of the fruit of the Spirit within our hearts, we begin to experience deeper gifts, including a gift of discernment that provides personal insight and revelation.

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste, and men without individuality have no taste--at any rate no taste that they can impose on their publics.

We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

I refuse to promote anything on Instagram for money and I'm aware that I have to be careful about saying yes to anything.