Quotes About Discernment

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.

America knows nothing of food, love, or art.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

False teachers invite people to come to the Master's table because of what's on it, not because they love the Master.

I can only tell you this-I would rather have taste than either love or money.

Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

The key to keep a great friendship is not to make friends with the people who are really not your friend.

I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgments about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these too are relative). Thus relativism's closest approximation to "virtue" is "tolerance.

What shall I do with a lying man? Let him speak so he may reveal himself.

Don't cast pearls before swine, as the old saying goes. And you might think that's harsh. But training your child not to sleep, and rewarding him with the antics of a creepy puppet? That's harsh too. You pick your poison, and I'll pick mine.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date.

Cultivating judgment about the difference between virtue and vice is the beginning of wisdom, something that can never be out of date. By contrast, our modern relativism

To manage complex affairs properly, it is necessary to be cold enough in vision to separate the power hungry and self-serving pseudoadvocate of the status quo from the genuine conservative; and the self-deceptive, irresponsible rebel without a cause from the truly creative. And to manage this means to separate those factors within the confines of one's own soul, as well as among other people.

You must shepherd your limited resources carefully. Seeing is very difficult, so you must choose what to see, and let the rest go.

Ver es algo muy difícil, así que tienes que elegir qué ver y obviar lo demás.

the logical mind serves as a human bullshit detector.

The ultimate reason for teaching kids to write a proof is not that the world is full of proofs. It's that the world is full of non-proofs , and grown-ups need to know the difference. It's hard to settle for a non-proof once you've really familiarized yourself with the genuine article.

Ouvi dizer que nele é tudo grande, é um pé-de-mesa… — quem lhe dissera? Ninguém: ela batia o olho e pronto, ficava a par das proporções, resultado de prática constante e efetiva.

At bottom, one might say that human wisdom consisted in the protraction of all things, in saying "no" before saying "yes," for one could manage people only by trifling with them.

Con el cultivo de la inteligencia vienen los gustos costosos

I have long since learned, as a measure of elementary hygiene, to be on guard when anyone quotes Pascal.