Quotes About Discernment

You should use your intelligence and critical mind to carefully examine everything you see or hear.

We need to come out of our silos. Open the doors and come out into the air and the light. Hack through a wall and make a door if necessary. Expand our horizons. Understand that divergent viewpoints can be valid. That sympathetic viewpoints can be false. And that we need to be able to discern the difference.

An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The

The thought of Pascal's was brought home to him: "A mesure qu'on a plus d'esprit, on trouve qu'il y a plus d'hommes originaux. Les gens du commun ne trouvent pas de différence entre les hommes.

Love begins with a sense of superior discernment.

Wisdom lies in moderating mere impressions

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It is unfortunate that some people judge others by their choice in foods, beverages, suits, watches, motor vehicles, and such. To them, superior people have excellent tastes in consumer goods. But it is easier to purchase products that denote superiority than to be actually superior in economic achievement.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.

THE most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.

Discretion tells us what God wants of us and what He does not want of us.

The truth I must love in my brother is God Himself, living in him. I must seek the life of the Spirit of God breathing in him. And I can only discern and follow that mysterious life by the action of the same Holy Spirit living and acting in the depths of my own heart.

To know when to stop To know when you can get no further By your own action, This is the right beginning!

I was fully convinced that I was going to indulge all the selfish appetites that I did not yet know how to recognize as selfish because they appeared so spiritual in their new disguise.

For me—the betrayal I have to look out for is that which would consist simply in attaching myself to "a cause" that happens to be operating at this time, and getting involved, and letting myself be carried along with it, simply making appropriate noises from time to time, at a distance.

She's not crazy; she's just educated... Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. ROBERT FROST

I'm not an infant, Georgie." "I can see that." His bedclothes left little to the imagination.

He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.

I'm just pulling up these weeds.' 'Why?' She thought about this for a second. 'Well, they don't belong here.' 'Oh. Where do they belong, then?' 'They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still cannot see. (Mrs. Plithiver)

Mairi cupped her daughter's face in her hands. "There are things ye believe, lass, and things that are true. Someday, mayhap, ye'll learn to know the difference.

The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.