Quotes About Discernment

Even more truly is it said: when you don't know spit, bullshit.

When your words are futile, you're better off keeping them to yourself

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

Actually, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good.

Leigh-Cheri knew better than to jump to conclusions on a Sunday.

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.

Good things have become the enemy of the best things. I challenge you and release you right now as you read these words to let your heart be broken by the Holy Ghost. It's time for you to make your life holy.

Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.

He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.

What he might call cowardice other people called common sense.

Good is knowing when to stop.

some advice about how to keep on with a brain greedy for news nobody could live with in a world happy to provide it.

Everything depends on knowing how much...Good is knowing when to stop.

they have the eyes of people who can tell what time it is by the colour of the sky... their eyes do not bite

facts can exist without human intelligence, but truth cannot.

Everything depends on knowing how much {and} Good is knowing when to stop.

I ain't. Keeps him dumb. He wouldn't know a good woman from a snake and he won't let nobody point out the difference.

He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had

Oh, sure. You have to know what's wrong before you can find what's right.

We need to make sure we are not analyzing the events in our lives from a secular, human, worldly point of view rather than from a divine, spiritual, godly point of view.

This is what separates the men from the boys. Because as a kingdom man, you get to name things. Better yet, as a man under God's authority, you get to name things

It was always easier to genuinely praise than to try and find something nice to say about rubbish.