Quotes About Discernment

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

I hate the man who eats without knowing what he's eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.

I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

Man is too quick at forming conclusions.

I like the sound of people's voices, and I think what a man says can very well tell what he's thinking, whether he's lying or not.

It is wise to withhold one's heart and mind from men who think themselves superior.

the uncandid censurer always picks out the worst man of a class, and then confidently produces him as being a fair specimen of it.

A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.

If we fill the palace with vulgar people and all kinds of junk, how can the Lord and His Court occupy it? When such a crowd is there it would be a great thing if He were to remain for even a short time.

Mirad que no son tiempos de creer a todos, sino a los que viereis van conforme a la vida de Cristo.

Life is one big judgment call. (And a neverending series of little ones.)

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.

Many symptoms of systemic sin sickness boil to the surface and erupt for all to see between the time a society determines to turn its back on God and the time a people become so wicked that God gives up pleading for them to repent because their hearts and minds can't be turned again to Him. It is incumbent upon Christians, who have the capability to discern the signs pointing to how near is the time when God's judgment must fall, to be watchmen on the wall.

1. Passion; 2. An eye of discernment; 3. An empty vessel; 4. An ability to be uncertain; 5. Belief in the necessity of art and artists; 6. A medium—bringing a passionate and informed understanding of works of art to an audience in ways that will stimulate, inspire, question; 7. Making possible the altering of perception.6