Quotes About Discernment

...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

The President hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully indeed to hear the one voice that tells him his is not.

The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times

A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

The woman's vision is deep-reaching, the man's far-reaching.

The wise man is seldom prudent.

Wise is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!