Quotes About Discernment

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.

I have no better way of knowing if a man is for God than if he likes to say the Hail Mary and the Rosary.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

Be gracious to all men, but choose the best to be your friends.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

We need revelation for the calling of officers in the Church. Men should not be called merely through impression.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

Faith never means gullibility. The man who believes everything is as far from God as the man who refuses to believe anything.