Quotes About Discernment

It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

It is another property of the human mind that whenever men can form no idea of distant and unknown things, they judge them by what is familiar and at hand.

Ci sono occasioni in cui occorre parlare e non bisogna dare nulla per scontato. Poi ci sono occasioni in cui, invece, devi rimanere in silenzio perché nell'aria c'è qualcosa d'impalpabile e prezioso, e le tue parole potrebbero disperderlo in un istante. Sono due concetti semplici. La parte difficile è decidere quando applicare una regola e quando l'altra.

Ci sono occasioni in cui occorre parlare e non bisogna dare nulla per scontato. Poi ci sono occasioni in cui, invece, devi rimanere in silenzio perché nell'aria c'è qualcosa d'impalpabile e prezioso, e le tue parole potrebbero disperderlo in un istante. Sono due concetti semplici. La parte difficile è capire quando applicare una regola e quando l'altra.

Allow planning and discernment to take the needed amount of time.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

A midwife knows too much . . . But if she is truly a wise woman, she knows when to keep her mouth shut.

In 2006 I had begun the discernment process for locating my rightful geographic home. By the time my corporate pink slip arrived I had spent two years researching and taking recon trips to five different cities in southern California. Having crossed them off my list, in February 2008 I visited Sarasota, Florida, at the urging of a friend who winters in a neighboring town. Though Florida had never been on my radar, only minutes in Sarasota I knew I'd found home.

The mind is useful in making distinctions between things, finding differences, and evaluating them.

Don't say yes out of obligation. When you don't feel an inner yes, say no to others' requests for your help. Reserve some of your time and energy for things you love to do.

These days if you want to know a man's true nature you need more than a pinch of salt; you'd need seven sack-loads of the stuff.

Try to distinguish ignorance from malice. And keep your animus for malice.

What Hitler taught us–to an extent greater than anyone else in history, though we would become aware of it again in Vietnam–is that a licence to kill creates a momentum which defies moral sensibility and discernment and destroys the capacity of the individual to distinguish between good and evil or, and this is perhaps even worse, to act against a recognized wrong.

Temptation's less about wearing someone down with repetition than it is about finding the right phrase and dropping it in at the right time.

You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

What we're told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.

The more decisions we have to make, the less stamina we have to make the best one for us at that moment.

Given the chance, others will set our priorities for us. Yet God specifically has a calling for each of us that will only come from Him. To discern this, we need wisdom. Without God's wisdom, we make decisions on facts and feelings. To find wisdom, I need to silence the demands of many, to hear the commands of One.