Quotes About Discernment

Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

His Spirit speaks with promptings that are not audible—often they are much louder than that—always in perfect harmony with the Scriptures and always resounding with perfect wisdom.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true.

Wisdom is one thing, to know how to make true judgment, how all things are steered through all things.

There is no wisdom save in truth.

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

The primary wisdom is intuition.

Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries. Likewise, a foolish man cannot understand the wise man´s wisdom even if he associates with a sage.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.