Quotes About Discernment

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.

Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25 showing, not the 7:15. Ritz not Wheat Thins.

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

It is impossible to have bad taste, but many people have none at all.

There has been foolish talk about audiences having an average twelve-year-old mind: it just isn't true. They are older than anybody, and wiser.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

Vampire worldview, condensed into three sentences: If it's not food or a pet, kill it, because it might be poisonous.

If it feels wrong, it probably is.

When I was little, my grandmother gave me this advice. She said, 'Audrey, if you meet a man who is smooth, who says all the right things and knows all the tricks to make a woman happy, you've got to ask yourself how he got that way.

Like all inexperienced people, Toby tended to make all-or-nothing judgements.

One should never tell anything to somebody who won't think about it right. Or is this too timid a doctrine?

As she handed it over Dr Klein gave me a keen look. Her narrow dark eyes, which seemed in the strange light to be shot with red, had the slightly Oriental appearance peculiar to certain Jewish women.

the intruder was an obviously mature thirty, at least—quite elderly, in fact.)

There were times when a Rational could be too Rational, and chase down the tracks of every thought to the detriment of what was important.

Akl? ba??nda insan, haddini bilen insand?r

Dar eu ce gândesc? - C? È™i dac? pot citi ce e-n mintea omului nu-nseamn? c? trebuie s? spun cu voce tare ceea ce v?d.

It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood.

El problema no estaba en conseguir la respuesta, sino en formular la pregunta precisa.

For me, the strike zone has always been, If it's something I can drive, it's most likely a strike. I feel like if it's a ball I really can't do much with, it's most likely a ball. So that's just always been my approach.