Quotes About Discernment

One cannot say everything at once.

My father says that intelligence is the ability to see reality quickly.

One of the best ways to keep a great secret is to shout it.

Long before he puts the problem into words, the scientist knows how to confine his questions to ones that he thinks are answerable. He wouldn't be able to formulate them otherwise. His taste, discernment, wisdom, shrewdness and experience have established within him an inner knowledge of what is feasible.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

There's an old saying that you should believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.

You should believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.

It's safe to tell a secret to one. Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, everyone else will know.

Dispatch business quickly, and keep out of long debates and heats… be swift to hear, and slow to speak, and let it be in the grace, which seasons all words. George Fox,

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.

But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.

IN LUDO VERITAS. In the Game Is Truth.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.

How the more you looked, the more you gleaned. All the 'ways of seeing' that John Berger wrote about.

can see what others cannot see, but sometimes I miss what is apparent to the dimmest simpleton.

Por las uñas de un hombre, por las mangas de su abrigo, por sus botas, por las rodillas de sus pantalones, por los callos de su dedo índice y pulgar, por su expresión, por los puños de su camisa, por sus movimientos, por cada una de estas cosas la vocación de un hombre queda claramente revelada. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Estudio en escarlata

Er gebeuren dingen om ons heen. Maar we merken ze nauwelijks. We zijn doof en blind.

The state of admiration is a condition of feeblemindedness. Most people are feebleminded all their lives only because they admire. Only a dimwit admires, the smart one doesn't admire: he respects, observes, understands.