Quotes About Discernment

IQ test was invented not to determine how smart people are but how stupid)

It may sound as if I'm cherry-picking

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

71 Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

I like this advice—how wise people seem when they give us the counsel we want!

I didn't feel the need to examine every stranger that approached.

They did not know that the misfortune of having average taste is a great deal worse than the misfortune of having no taste at all.

a desgraça de um gosto mediano é ainda pior do que a desgraça de não ter gosto nenhum

You reason well, and your wit is bold, but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are, that some people see things that others cannot?

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Consider the source...Don't be a fool by listening to a fool.

How I Know What I Know

It shouldn't have to be said, Arash went on, but when confronted by crazy, Do Not Engage.

He could almost have been an American, he was so tan and had such good teeth, but I could tell straight away that he wasn't. He had what no American man I've ever met has had, and that's intuition.

He had what no American man I've ever met has had, and that's intuition.

Never try to knock on rotten wood.

There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things.

Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with a new world, he did not try to force it to comply with his expectations, but began all over to learn the rules, without prejudice as to where the information came from.

He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.

She decided to be quiet for now. There was a Yamani saying: "You need never unsay anything that you did not say in the first place.

People aren't that clever mostly, are they

Cyrion is capable of sentiment over small children. And can remain unblinded by the prettiest woman.

I see you are beginning to read me like a scroll.

They're not as smart as we are, they're not as intuitive as we are, and they certainly don't need to know about fifty percent of what we do." She looked around. "He didn't hear that, did he?