Quotes About Discernment

In this moment, it is not wise to judge with your eyes.

Just because you see things straight doesn't mean you see them in time.

I have this thing about friends and secrets. Sometimes when I meet a person I like, I tell them a secret they don't know me well enough to be told. It lets me judge their potential as a friend.

Children are excellent judges of character, you know

RULE 1. YOU MUST KNOW WHAT KIND OF BOOK YOU ARE READING, AND YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS AS EARLY IN THE PROCESS AS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO READ.

Thus the most important thing to know, when reading any report of current happenings, is who is writing the report. What is involved here is not so much an acquaintance with the reporter himself as with the kind of mind he has.

I'd rather deal with a rogue than a fool.

She did not know then that the price of allowing false opinions was the gradual loss of one's capacity for forming true ones.

Discernment includes seeing that even as we attempt to see our children for who they are, we also cannot fully know who they are or where their lives will take them. We can only love them, and accept them, and honor the mystery of their being.

The old ones say that a man can have knowledge without wisdom but he cannot have wisdom without knowledge.

If you still don't like a book after slogging through the first 50 pages, set it aside. If you're more than 50 years old, subtract your age from 100 and only grant it that many pages.

Spend one and save one; you remember the wise man's rule

What did these people know that the rest of us did not know?

What did these people know that the rest of us did not yet know?

Beware of advice—even this.

Great things alone can make a great mind, and petty things will make a petty mind unless a man rejects them as completely alien.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

Stupidity is almost always in the eye of the beholder.

Frente a un ataúd, todos vemos sólo lo bueno o lo que queremos ver.

La diferencia entre un crimen y una hazaña suele depender de la perspectiva del observador

Egy nÅ' csalhatatlan ösztöne azonnal megérzi, ha egy férfi halálos szerelemre lobban iránta, különösen akkor, ha a kérdéses férfi még csak egy málészájú kiskamasz.

Alicia Gris sees what the rest don't see. Her mind works differently from the rest. Where everyone else sees a locked door, she sees a key. Where others lose track, she picks up the trail. It's a gift, one could say. And the best thing is that no one sees her coming.

Never trust he who trusts everyone," Barceló added.