Quotes About Discernment

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes, clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

They say the only people who tell the truth are drunkards and children. Guess which one I am.

Every time we discerningly renounce a possession, we free up energy that can be channeled into the pursuit of dharma. Renunciation was never meant to be for its own sake, but for the sake

Interestingly, the word, intelligence, comes from the Latin phrase inter legere—it means, simply, "to choose.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

My own hearing has become careful and algebraic.

Knowledge is easy," the old woman told her. "Wisdom is hard.

May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight.

Alas," mused Roger Bacon, "it is not only the public which so often fails to appreciate the nature of our more delicate investigations—many of our leading churchmen are particularly lacking in the finer faculties of discernment. Led by the twin banes of intolerance and ignorance, they too often condemn where they rightly should revere. They traduce what should be championed. They denounce what should be praised.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

I had not learned anything about Huntley that would have alerted me to what he was. I had no reason, as an 11-year-old girl, to be wary of him. No one said, 'This guy likes to have sex with young girls.

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.

There is no sin in the realm of taste.

America is in moral and spiritual decline—and your favorite candidate or political party isn't going to fix it. Why are we in decline? The answer is that God has given us over to reprobate minds. A reprobate mind is one that doesn't use reason or discernment. It suppresses truth instead of embracing truth—just

The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them." The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism.

God has already lined up all the people in your path to get you to your dreams and your visions; all you have to do is get rid of the wrong ones.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

When you have a good anything, you notice the difference - whether it's a good shooting sleeve or a pair of shoes or a jersey, we all feel the differences.

Since I'm so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can't be something that I'm only 'sort of' into. I knew that 'The Stand' would be an amazing challenge every month that would be a blast to illustrate.

Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

Look, the American people are smart.

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