Quotes About Discernment

Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear.

I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.

It is better not to become acquainted with men about whom you have formerly had doubts. No matter what you do, they will be people by whom you will be tripped up or taken in.

We decide who and what we will love and who and what we will hate. We decide what we will do with the love and hate. Every day we decide. It was this that revealed who we were, not the color of our flesh or the shape of our eyes or the language we spoke.

When you are hungry for something, you often do not use your best judgment.

incredulous. I decide in that moment to tell her the barest minimum.

You don't have to say everything you're thinking, Elise," he said.

Leadership Wisdom refers to authenticity, compassion, insight, discernment, selflessness, purpose-driven behavior, and making decisions for the greater good over the advancement of the self. We can only develop wisdom as we learn to let go of our defenses and act out of choice rather than defensiveness. Robertson, Susan . Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom . The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.

To be REAL means waking up. Waking up to the inner-truth of who we are and what drives us. It requires an honest look in the mirror to acknowledge that we are not perfect. Waking up means we are willing to transform ourselves from fear-based mindsets and behaviors to become a better person than who we are today. Becoming a REAL leader requires authenticity, humility, caring, transparency, and discernment. Robertson, Susan. Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom. The Books Factory. Kindle Edition.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Ripred was right about you. He said I couldn't judge you like I would other humans.

That's true. No one in their right mind would let me make the plans. Because I obviously can't tell a friend from an enemy.

There's something else there as well, something entirely her own. An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

When will you learn that the time to buy a thing is when you find what you want? If you go back the next year and try to get more, they will try to sell you something else.

Every second or third day I'm getting calls from people with new projects, asking me to listen to stories. But I don't want to do just any other project. There should be some zing to it; something new.

You can't give your songs to just anybody.

Every riff had to be perfect and heavy, collectively what we wanted it to be. If there was one person in the room who went, 'Heh, I don't think it is there yet, guys,' we'd scrap the whole song. I think that took a little bit of songwriting maturity for us.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.