Quotes About Discernment

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.

Vic pointed at him, two finger-guns of approval. "I like a man who knows the value of words, doesn't spend 'em too cheap." Ranulf nodded. "That is the manner in which I roll.

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself.

In the kingdome of blind men the one ey'd is king. [In the kingdom of blind men the one eyed is king.]

Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.

It is expedient to have acquaintance with those who have looked into the world, who know men, understand business, and can give you good intelligence and good advice when they are wanted.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

It is not for human judgment to dive into the heart of man, to know whether his intentions are good or evil.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

One is greater than two amongst three men where only one of them is intelligent!

Don't ever take seriously, don't ever consider, don't even pay any attention to what a man says or does until he gets to about 30.

The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.