Quotes About Discernment

What cops call hunches," Trahan said, "FBI hackers call pattern recognition.

Open your eyes, you idiot, I wanted to say. This woman is a shark. She's from a different world, a different species. There's something way fucking wrong here. Instead: "Harry, my gut tends to be pretty good about these things.

Trust your gut. When you felt something was off, you had to believe that feeling, even if you couldn't articulate the basis.

Without wisdom, brilliance is not enough.

Don't let your good nature cloud your critical eye. The critical eye should always be cold and clear.

I don't mean to be a snob about anyone else's taste or to suggest that my own is worth bragging about. I don't really have taste; I have reactions to other people's. I have opinions.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

there are times to teach and times not to teach.

A menudo «lo bueno» es enemigo de «lo mejor».

My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach.

Rash thinking always resulted in unsatisfying results.

didn't need to wallow with the pigs to know it stunk in the pen.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad.

Talk slow, clear, and smart. If you can't do all three, keep your mouth shut.

The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.

Algunas de nuestras decisiones más sensatas tienen que ver con lo que decidimos no hacer.

I'm smart enough to know that Elizabeth had no doubt seen dozens of men leap over curbs without her falling in love with the leaper, but I do believe this: When an endeavor is special in a person's life, others discern it intuitively and appreciate it more, like the praise a child receives for a lumpy clay sculpture. And as ordinary as such an event might be, it can be instilled with uncommon power.

As long as you can tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, generating a boatload of ideas, even outlandish ones, can only be a good thing.

Come up with a terrible idea? No problem—just don't act on it.

Tis much better to do a little with certainty and leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.

finding a few bad apples out of millions would be difficult. Our odds would improve if we could somehow trick the bad apples into revealing themselves.

We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.

You can only really understand something when you know what it is not.

there's nothing common about common sense.