Quotes About Discernment

Lies are easy to find, avoid them. The truth is harder to find, seek it.

Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking. Proverbs 29:20 "Seest thou a man that has hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than him".

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

There is nothing worse than imagination without taste.

Until the tide goes out you don't know who's swimming naked. —WARREN BUFFETT

This is the map we wish to construct in our heads: a reliable guide that allows us to avoid those who are not worthy of our time and trust and to embrace those who are. The best indications that our always-tentative maps are faulty include feelings of sadness, anger, betrayal, surprise, and disorientation.

The taste of the wine (1) had a sweet taste (2) when I took a taste (3), which was too strong for my taste (4) and therefore not to my taste (5), though I may not have the best taste (6) when compared with your taste (7).

No todo lo que grita más fuerte es lo más perentorio.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Do not mistake a goat's beard for a fine stallion's tail.

Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

Intellectual courage is the foundation of good judgment. It is a balance between the strength of conviction and flexibility.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Beware of the half-truth; you may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

Man does not make truth. Man, if he be not blind, only recognizes truth when he sees it.

Cugel is a man of discernment! declared Bunderwal. I would rate him an applicant of fair to good quality, and I urge you to ignore his long spatulate fingers which I last noticed on Larkin the baby-stealer. There is a significant difference between the two: Larkin has been hanged and Cugel has not been hanged.

One must gauge one's trust carefully.

but knew that jumping to such conclusions was unwise, for it closed the mind to other possibilities. One must consider facts as if one has discovered jewels, each gem laid out on a plain surface, a clear mind, and then considered carefully before being arranged in a set.

Look at the world beyond your immediate emotion, the immediate fury of inequality. Choose your battles, Billy.

In all your getting, get understanding.

As Rumi reminds us, a bee and a wasp may drink from the same flower, but one produces nectar and the other a sting. We must choose the nectar.

The cynic sees the hat and coat, and thinks he sees the man. The sympathetic seer sees the man, and is not concerned with the hat and coat.