Quotes About Discernment

You never know,' she (Souljah) said, 'that's why you gotta watch for a long time before you jump into bed with someone. It's not what they say that gives them away, it's what they do and how they do it. I watch closely. Most things are not what they seem to be in this life. Most people are not what they seem to be in this life. Most people find it extremely hard to tell the truth about themselves. Living has taught me that.

anger cancels good judgement!

A preacher should not land at a place and say that God had sent him. I am always fearful when I hear a man advertising this. If he is sent of God, the saints will know it.

If I save my insight, I don't attend to weakness of eyesight.

No te parece suficientemente bien dicho que no hay que respetar todas las opiniones de los hombres, sino unas sí y otras no; ni todas las de todos, sino las de uno sí y no las de otros? De ser así, ¿no serán las buenas precisamente las de los sensatos, y las malas las de los insensatos?

I tell you I can't read a book, but I can read de people.

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Intuition doesn't tell you what you want to hear; it tells you what you need to hear.

Poirot suspected Hugo Dockerill was one of the stupidest people he had ever met.

A phenomenon I have had cause to notice time and again in both my professional and my social life is that when one meets a large group of people all at once, one somehow knows-as if by otherworldly instinct-which of them one will enjoy speaking to and which are worth avoiding.

That's a bit sweeping. Sometimes it takes a while to find out how good or bad something has been.

Time alone reveals the just man but you might discern a bad man in a single day.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

But what shall men do who cannot find anything wise to say, because they are interpreting foolish things?

Sound judgment is to be preferred even to examples, and indeed examples harmonize with the voice of reason; but not all examples, but those only which are distinguished by their piety, and are proportionately worthy of imitation.

If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots.

There are some sleeping dogs that should be left to lie; there are some questions that should not be asked.

Observation is a dying art.

Experience alone as an authoritative source mediating the revelation of God to people is not reliable.12 Human

For a new fount to be successful it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

When one is old, one has only to look at a person to know him through and through. I know a good man when I see one. My wife taught me that, God rest her soul …

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

Between overstatement and understatement lies one hundred per cent.

man sows good wheat seed in his field, but later finds that an enemy has sown weeds among the wheat. When the workers ask if they should pull the weeds out, the farmer tells them to allow both wheat and weeds to grow until the time of the harvest, when the two can be more easily separated.