Quotes About Discernment

I have gradually learned to be cautious even in disbelief

There is no consciousness without the discrimination of opposites.

Everything we do not differentiate falls into the Pleroma and is cancelled out along with its opposite. Therefore if we do not discern God, then the effective fullness is cancelled out for us.

Professorial E-mail Sorting: Do not reply to an e-mail message if any of the following applies: It's ambiguous or otherwise makes it hard for you to generate a reasonable response. It's not a question or proposal that interests you. Nothing really good would happen if you did respond and nothing really bad would happen if you didn't.

If you don't attempt to weigh pros against cons, but instead use any glimpse of some potential benefit as justification for unrestrained use of a tool, then you're unwittingly crippling your ability to succeed in the world of knowledge work.

Tener claridad sobre lo importante equivale a tener claridad sobre lo que no es importante.

Sometimes it is better to know an unpleasant thing than nothing at all.

From the mouths of children and fools we will hear the truth spoken

Yo sigo clasificando a la humanidad —para mi uso, que es el que me importa, y que Dios me perdone— en amigos e hijos de puta.

True Rewards Seek Those Who Choose Wisely

Jan Smuts, the brilliant young Transvaal state attorney, wrote of Botha that he had a natural sympathy that made it possible for him to "get extremely close to others and to read their minds and divine their characters with marvellous accuracy. It gave him an intuitive power of understanding and appreciating men which was very rare." Botha

and in the meantime don't jump to conclusions.

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything that I can not explain as a fraud.

Many experts lose the creativity and imagination of the less informed. They are so intimately familiar with known patterns that they may fail to recognize or respect the importance of the new wrinkle. The process of applying expertise is, after all, the editing out of unimportant details in favor of those known to be relevant.

E?ti considerat geniu nu numai prin ceea ce ai scris, ci ?i prin ceea ce ai evitat s? scrii.

Sophie wondered when was she going to learn that lots of things seem like a good idea but a small amount of analysis might uncover that such seemingly good ideas are, in fact, intrinsically faulty.

Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie – a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied – sucked the big one.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit—wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

And please, don't take offense. It's not an insult if it's true. - Devyn

Trust Wes to say what people are thinking but are too smart to actually say aloud.

It's like the free puppy,

but as they say, you always have to watch out for the quiet ones. I take a quick shower. I run into the kitchen and grab a couple of sticks of the string cheese our son loves to eat. I take these

Some people need a poke in the eye to show them the right direction, others simply need pointing in the right direction. It is a question of having the wisdom to know when to point and when to poke.