Quotes About Discernment

The point of seeing both sides isn't to hover between them but to be able to come down on the right side with the right degree of conviction.

Vulgarity is no substitute for wit

Intuition is a funny thing. Sometimes it's a gut feeling, and you look around and just know something bad is about to happen. Other time, it's elusive, and later you find yourself looking back on certain events and wondering how in the world you missed all the signals.

Learn to listen when people are talking. First, it's a great art, and second, it's quite possible that when people say one thing they mean another.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Each worm to his taste; some prefer to eat nettles.

Seldom do people discern Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.

And lies, of course - It's like astronomy, I always say. Clever fellows, the astronomers, they can tell ever such a lot about something they can't see by the shadow it casts over something they can. Same with lies. The shape of a lie will often give you the truth.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

Ali na obrežju reke sedijo tatovi ali svetniki? Takoj boš ugotovil, da le spregovorijo... To, kakšen je ?lovek globoko znotraj, pove cesta njegovih besed.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

There are some things a woman can just tell.

God gave you two eyes and two ears and only one mouth. Watch, listen, and observe before you speak or engage. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

Our human task as craftsmen or manufacturers is to discern this logos dwelling in each thing and to render it manifest; we seek not to dominate but to co-operate.

Has your discerning mind just served to drive you mad?

I've got good intuition.

Never ignore your intuition about friendships and people's intentions towards you.

It's good to be intuitive.

I'm highly intuitive - highly.

To invent is to discern, to choose.

Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.

The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

Successful investing is all about common sense.