Quotes About Discernment

In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.

Don't be so openminded your brain falls out.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

A man's clarity of judgment is never very good when you're involved, and as you grow older, and as you grow more involved, your clarity of judgement suffers.

Few men have depth enough to hear or tell the truth.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men, whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.