Quotes About Discernment

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence

As a matter of fact, when it comes to seeing, men display two tendencies: they see what they wish to see, what is useful to them, what is agreeable. The second is the tendency toward inhibition; they do not see what they do not wish to see, what is useless to them, or disagreeable.

L'essentiel est de lire beaucoup. N'importe quoi. Ce qu'on a envie de lire. Le tri se fait après. Et même la mauvaise littérature est nourricière. La seule littérature stérilisante, la littérature prétentieuse, philosophisante, cuistre, est sans danger pour les enfants parce qu'ils ne peuvent pas pénétrer dedans. Ils la rejettent, comme ils tournent le bouton de la T.V. au moment des discours politiques. Ce sont des sages.

THREE QUALITIES ENABLE people to understand the teachings: objectivity, which means an open mind; intelligence, which is the critical faculty to discern the real meaning by checking the teachings of Buddha; and interest and commitment, which means enthusiasm.

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

If you don't want to "sweat the small stuff," it's critical that you choose your battles wisely.

Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We

There are women out there that will add value to your life - if you keep the wrong ones out.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

that childlike inability to distinguish what is true from what we'd like to be true.

The reason for this double standard in our scepticism is, quite simply, that we can see and we can't echolocate.

The human eye is a wonderful device," I quoted from Poems and Other Prevarications absently. "With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

El ojo humano es un instrumento maravilloso» -dije, citando Poemas y otras tergiversaciones -. «Con un pequeño esfuerzo no es capaz de ver las peores injusticias».

His way to wisdom was to hear out others who might or might not know any more than he did and then to sift it all through his own mental strainer.

You don't always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one -Henrietta Barett

Khrennikov had an average ear for music, but perfect pitch when it came to power.

If you know what you have, you know what to throw away.

No somos tan insensibles como para confundir los hombres vivos y los hombres ya procesados en rebanadas y salchichas.

We discovered that the scrupulously strict were correspondently keen to discern suggestions of sex where nobody else would think of looking for them.

Even a fool when he holds his peace is considered wise; when he closes his lips he is esteemed a man of understanding" (Proverbs 17:28). Yes, sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all. We

there is a direct correlation between our prayer life and our conversations. Perhaps if we spent more time and energy on our prayer life, we would use our tongues more wisely.

It is surprising how many times a good feeling can be confused with a bad one. Often one is unsure which feeling it really is until much later.

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones—like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No