Quotes About Discernment

Be open-minded, but not so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.

Sometimes truth is costly but not nearly as costly as deception.

Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it

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.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

We do not find truth groveling through error.

Don't confuse meaning with truth.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Some will tell you that there are multiple worldviews. The Bible says we have only 2: the Truth and the Lie.

To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.

The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector of persons,but of things.Truth should be his primary object.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.