Quotes About Discernment

Country fans can sniff out phony from a mile away.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

I'm not a shoe snob.

Choose your clients as carefully as you choose your friends.

The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.

I mean, how do you know if people are good for you or not? It's not like they come with an FDA approved sticker or anything.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

an outstanding memory is often associated with weak judgement.

the property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.

Kun je ook maar iemand goed vinden als je niemand slecht vindt?

ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her.

was a female. Isserley wasn't interested in females, at least not in that way. Let them get picked up by someone else. If the hitcher was male, she usually went back for another look, unless he was an obvious weakling. Assuming he'd made a reasonable impression on her

It's amazing how people like judging.

Knowledge is not for knowing, knowledge is for cutting.

Cogito: my thinking is distinguished from knowledge, and from the various processes of understanding— memory, imagination, deductive reason, discernment, geometry— that have been externalized, along with synapses and neurons, in the computer.

There are truths covering lies, and lies covering truth. Like peeling an onion, you uncover the truth little by little until in the end, you open your eyes to find out that everyone around you, including yourself, is lying all the time.

No esperes que los demás te digan la verdad, porque ellos también se mienten a sí mismos. Tienes que confiar en ti y decidir si crees o no lo que alguien te dice.

No inventes en la gente lo que no tiene.

Edhe më budallai mund ta joshë një grua. Por duhet të dish dhe si ta lësh; nga kjo dallohet një burrë i pjekur.

I always listen to what I can leave out.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.