Quotes About Discernment

La vérité est comme le soleil, elle fait tout voir et ne se laisse pas regarder.

People do not read stupidities with impunity.

The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop

As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Blind is he who will not see!

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts.

But the work of the wise is one thing and the work of the merely clever is another.

He condemned nothing in haste and without taking circumstances into account. He said, Examine the road over which the fault has passed.

We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

There are young men of whom it can be said that their countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them.

one good piece, ladies, and choose it well;

A salvo no está ningún secreto.

We come to enjoy ourselves in it, come what may. And in doing so we add meaning of our own, proving ourselves to be life's creative participants. We discern and live, thereby enhance life. We change life by making life coherent, and we are in the meantime changed by living the coherence we continually create.

If you read, you'll judge.

Silence doesn't mean we have run out of things to say, only that we are trying not to say them.

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up.

You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.

A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them.

It is far easier to know men than to know man.