Quotes About Discernment

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.

I don't think fairness means that you give equal time to every point of view no matter how marginal. You weigh the sides, you do some truth-testing, you apply judgment to them.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation."

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.

All truths are not to be told.

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error.

The truth seems to love the small print.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

Always ask for the truth. Just make sure the time is right.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.

Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

Sun always finds a way to give its light; truth always finds a way to show its face!

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.