Quotes About Discernment

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere, nowadays," said Bob, "is anyone who's got a bit of common sense. I've never been a brainy chap?well, you know that well enough, Ali?but I often think that that's what the world really needs?just a bit of common sense.

Whatever people say, there is right, there is wrong. There is nothing in between.' - Hercule Poirot (Murder on the Orient Express)

Muitas pessoas não me parecem nem boas, nem más, mas apenas bastante tolas, sabe?

During the war, I honed my sense of suspicion into a fine art. Before approaching a house, a stable, or a barn, I would bend down to the ground and listen, sometimes for hours. By the sounds, I could tell if there were people there, and how many. People were always a sign of danger.

We have a choice: to Hear God's Voice or just Hear the Noise.

In matters of both film and literature I owe much to my brother's discernment. I took special care to see every film my brother recommended. As far back as elementary school I walked all the way to Asakusa to see a movie he had said was good.

People who can't make the simple distinction between what tastes good or bad have disqualified themselves from the human race," was one of his pet theories.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher percentage of journalists, because of thier enhanced power of discernment, realize they know a gay person or two, and are, therefore, less frightened of them.

I know I'm sort of farting into the wind on this. But I hope you'll fart along with me. I've always believed that it's possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it's critically important to do so, and that we put our entire democratic experiment in peril when we don't. It's a lesson I fear our nation is about to learn the hard way. That's

il faut apprendre, par observation et raisonnement, à reconstituer le vrai des choses d'après les apparences

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons .

A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are.

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

If your mind is too open people can throw all kinds of rubbish into it.

I would not be practicing love toward God OR my neighbour if I were to smile benignly on an unjust social order. It is not charitable to refrain from moral judgment: when Jesus says 'Judge not, lest ye be judged," he is forbidding condemnation, not discernment. There are times indeed when Christian charity demands that one speak forcibly.

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

Cicero said 'So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.'

Keep some of your personal life to yourself; otherwise, you won't have one.

We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

I have learnt this over time, that Peter Jones, you've gotta watch him.