Quotes About Discernment

I know things, but I shut my mouth. They don't want me to speak, so I don't speak.

We, as a people, we gotta know when it's time to speak up and when it's time to shut up.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

The fact that that's the difference between Mexicans and Cubans is pronounced. It's so immediately recognizable, the way a Cuban speaks, the way a Cuban moves the hands.

I have many friends in Special Forces, and the amazing thing about these guys is how quickly they can read someone.

I am a clairaudient healer. My specialty is being able to discern the blocks within a person's energy that are prohibiting them from being free, happy, and powerful.

I think these days when life is so busy and I'm juggling acting, modelling and my organic skincare line - Naked by Lisa Haydon - that I do only the work that I'm specifically passionate about and that may be in one of the many fashion weeks, but one must be choosy as well.

I love the Internet, but I think you have to only use it in the ways that are good for you. I think there's so much speculation that happens.

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

I've heard everything that anybody can make up or spin, and I know how to cut right through and get to the heart of any issue.

Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God.

I think that there's good movies and there's bad movies, and sometimes the bad movies spoil it for the rest of us, and we focus on them, but in the long run, all that matters are the good movies. Those are the ones that we will remember.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

You have to be very careful with who you do business. It's like a marriage. Do your research and check references.

Advice to son: Never confuse "I love you" with "I want to marry you."

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence.

A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.

Men of few words are the best men." (3.2.41)

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.