Quotes About Discernment

to weakness if you're fighting the wrong issue or the wrong person, or for the wrong reason.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

A man who will not listen carefully to advice honestly given is a fool. Of course, a man who blindly takes any advice he receives is a bigger fool.

Don't judge the quality of the gasoline by the filling station attendant.

Knowledge may hinder. Ignorance may liberate. Knowing when to know and when not to know, this is as important as a fluent blade. SUZUME–NO–KUMO (1434)

El conocimiento puede ser un freno. La ignorancia puede liberar. Saber cuándo saber y cuándo no saber es tan importante como un acero bien templado. Suzume-no-kumo, 1434

If you would know a man's good and evil points, you should know the underlings and retainers he loves and employs, and the friends with whom he mixes intimately. If the lord is not correct, none of his friends and retainers will be correct.

It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.

How very little a person knew about someone simply from looking at her. Yet how much people decided about others at a single glance. Herself included.

All the things that are white are not milk.

Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.

A man needs to know when to let things lie.

God grant me the serenity to not fuck the things I cannot stand, courage to fuck the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.

Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusiastic or attentive than he could sustain regardless of his mood and to not talk to people if his only reason to was because he felt lonely or bored

The truth is a strange thing. Like pornography, you know it when you see it.

La sabiduría se basa en el conocimiento, pero el conocimiento no es siempre sabiduría.

Más tarde se habría de reír al leer esta ingenua afirmación suya, pues habría de descubrir que un pueblo que sabe leer y escribir constituye todavía mejor clientela para los aventureros y farsantes políticos. La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

Guide me toward the proper course of action, Lord. I recognize that my desire to seek answers, while necessary in scientific endeavors, is not always welcome outside of it. Help me to know when it's appropriate to keep looking and when it's better to ignore my doubts. Let me always be inquisitive, but never be suspicious. Amen.

It should be our habit to say "Yes" to a request unless there are good reasons to say "No". It is easy to say "No" because we do not want to think through the implications of saying "Yes.

Proverbs 18:13 reminds us that "He who answers before listening—that is his folly and his shame.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.