Quotes About Discernment

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see.

Can you tell the difference between our margarine and our hair tonic? WE can't.

To the natural philosopher, the descriptive poet, the painter, and the sculptor, as well as to the common observer, the power most important to cultivate, and, at the same time, hardest to acquire is that of seeing what is before him. Sight is a faculty; seeing, an art.

Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.

The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

but it is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

A bastard had to learn to notice things, to read the truth that people hid behind their eyes.

Abrir los ojos es lo único necesario. El corazón miente y la mente engaña, pero los ojos ven. Mira con los ojos. Escucha con los oídos. Saborea con la boca. Huele con la nariz. Siente con la piel. Y sólo luego piensa, y así sabrás la verdad.

Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.

Never believe anything you hear at a woman's tit.

A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

The cat who wants his bowl of cream must know when to purr and when to show his claws" - Ser Kyle, the Cat of Misty Moor

A man must know how to look before he can hope to see.

A queen must listen to all," she reminded him. "The highborn and the low, the strong and the weak, the noble and the venal. One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

Sometimes," Catelyn said slowly, "the best thing you can do is nothing.

Sometimes a man knows more than he says.

Look around you, and take a good whiff. They're all liars here … and every one better than you.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do is nothing. Catelyn

El corazón miente y la mente engaña, pero los ojos ven. Mira con los ojos. Escucha con los oídos. Saborea con la boca. Huele con la nariz. Siente con la piel. Y no pienses hasta después, y así sabrás la verdad. —Syrio Forel