Quotes About Discernment

That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.

The natural man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit, and he cannot know them, for they are foolishness unto him.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

I prefer men to boys. To clear it up, it's not about an older or younger thing. It's a mindset, not age. There are 18-year-old men out there and there are 40-year-old boys.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.

Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything.

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ...

Actually, I've been thinking about that," Tristan said, and finally sat down again. "It's the dog that didn't bark.

But that's bullshit!" Doug says. "Jesus! Haven't you guys spent any time at all around people like Comstock? Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a useful item to add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable of saying, when a ton of wet steaming bullshit lands on your head, 'My goodness, this appears to be bullshit'?

The difference between stupid and intelligent people—and this is true whether or not they are well-educated—is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations—in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.

Sometimes it was better to say nothing than to fill a void badly.

What they conceal tells you more than what they reveal.

The voice within is the loudest voice with which I speak, because it is the closest to you. It is the voice which tells you whether everything else is true or false, right or wrong, good or bad as you have defined it. It is the radar that sets the course, steers the ship, guides the journey if you but let it.