Quotes About Discernment

Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard.

If you look at anything from the outside, it is easy to make sweeping ungenerous judgments. "How

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

If you don't love it, don't touch it.

I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.

An educated man is one who has the loves and hatreds together.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Water the fruit trees and don't water the thorns.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Never play tips from "insiders." They can't see the forest for the trees.

A fool does not see the same trees a wise man sees.

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge.

Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

Leadership is learned, earned, and discerned. You develop it. It's based on trust and credibility. Others see it in you. You can't demand it.

Don't believe everything you read.

When you know something is wrong for you, you have to make difficult decisions and trust your instincts.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.