Quotes About Discernment

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

A bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits.

Sometimes what is legal isn't what is right, and sometimes it needs a witch to tell the difference.

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.

Not everything is meant for all to hear.

Not everything is meant for all to hear. Who can judge the intention of another?

men that age aren't known for their superior judgment.

Confirmation bias had tripped many a scientist, and no doubt many a cop as well. You find only what you're looking for, which makes it far too easy to overlook everything else.

Those who fail to distinguish the nonessential from the essential and the essential from the nonessential will, in feeding all wrong thoughts, fail to attain the essential.

It is better to live alone than to have a fool for a companion.

You must love the truth more than anything else, and your love of the truth must grow. You must be able to feel the truth as distinct from other forms of stimulation—self-validation, pleasure, fulfillment or anything else—for the truth has its own experience, which is unique. As you are able to identify it, value it and experience it again and again, you will want to return to it.

Und dann sehe ich doch auch gleich, dass Sie anders sind als andere, dafür haben wir Frauen ein scharfes Auge.

Ninety percent of everything is crap.

We know that if we eat a certain food, it will upset our digestion, but we still eat it. The way out is to beware of the superficial appearance. From outside, something may look very pleasant. But we have to look deeper and use that deep understanding to see the superficial aspects of the object of our desire. Our understanding can overcome our cravings.

The problem is not one of being wrong or right, but one of being more or less skillful.

If you judge, investigate.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

I've learned that you really cannot judge a book by its cover.

I judge by appearances. People tell me I shouldn't.

You learn to judge your friends for who they are.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

You judge people as you meet them.