Quotes About Discernment

Your truth is what you can make your own mind believe. Be careful! Believe only that which is your truth and not that which has been said to you.

Truth is an acquired taste.

...and an edge that could cut a truth from a lie.

Give me the facts and I will determine my own truths.

If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

Some people say, 'Do not judge the book by its cover!' Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter.

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

When you hear hoof beats, think horses before you think zebras.

It was the Holy Grail of detective work. It had nothing to do with evidence or legal procedure or probable cause. It was just knowing it in your gut. Nothing in her life beat it.

It is in the instinctual interpretation of voice and personality that we form our judgments of others. Nothing beats that. Not fingerprints, not DNA, not the pointed finger of an eyewitness.

Durante toda tu vida oirás hablar a la gente, y la mayoría de las veces, probablemente el noventa y cinco por ciento de las veces, lo que la gente te diga será falso.

Well, we start with this outrageous idea that the ground of being, existence itself, is a person, and that this person is intimately concerned with each of our lives and desires us to turn our hearts toward him. Once you accept that level of insanity—or faith, as we prefer to call it—then it makes perfect sense to try to discern what God's purpose is for your life through a disciplined process of prayer and self-examination, discernment, as we say.

Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain. It´s about declaring what is just and what is unjust, and distinguishing right from wrong. We don´t grasp these things silently, and then put words to them; language is the medium through which we discern and deliberate about the good.

Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion. —Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Meriwether spent his entire day avoiding dumb bets, and he wasn't about to accept this one.

Best of all, he gave us a rule of thumb about information in the markets that I later found useful: "Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say.

Los sujetos no elegían entre cosas. Elegían entre descripciones de cosas.

Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them—to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch. Each of these people told you something about the state of the financial system, in the same way that people who survive a plane crash told you something about the accident, and also about the nature of people who survive accidents.

Amos liked to say that if you are asked to do anything—go to a party, give a speech, lift a finger—you should never answer right away, even if you are sure that you want to do it. Wait a day, Amos said, and you'll be amazed how many of those invitations you would have accepted yesterday you'll refuse after you have had a day to think it over.

People did not choose between things. They chose between descriptions of things.

The difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.

Confirmation bias is the most insidious because you don't even realize it is happening