Quotes About Discernment

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.

Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

I don't think it's about trusting people, it's about knowing who to trust.

I make up my mind about whether I can trust someone within 60 seconds of meeting them

I've learned how to respect myself and how to say no. I've learned who I can really trust. I have 200 or 300 friends, but I probably trust four.

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The less time you spend with Truth, the easier it is to believe lies.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it

Not every light is a true light; To the wise the light of truth is light itself.

When I became a man, and I started to understand the difference between the truth and what your parents are supposed to tell you, there's a difference, know what I mean?

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Criticism exists only to recognize the truth, not to act as judge.

With a keen eye for details, one truth prevails!

Listen to what people say when they are mad, that's when the truth comes out.