Quotes About Discernment

Where there is truth, there is also light, but don't confuse light with the flash.

Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

We think everyone but us need the unadulterated truth.

It is better the truth should come little by little. I have learned that, being a priest. Perhaps, in the old days, they ate knowledge too fast.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter taste.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show.

There are truths that are not for all men nor for all times.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.

Sara Stark, An Untold Want

Sometimes the most difficult thing is to be able to see the most obvious thing!

We must know how to discern between God's truth and the devil's counterfeit.

Sometimes by not knowing the truth we make incorrect judgments about situations

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

And the truth from so much lies.... wasn't ever told...

There's such a thing as moderation even in telling the truth.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of truth.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.

Just as the truth can be buried under a rubble of lies, a lie can be buried under a rubble of truth.