Quotes About Discernment

The Creator gave man two ears and one mouth;there is a reason why He did so.

Caroline was one of them people who utter three failures of judgment for every two words they speak, and by trying to correct them, you only succeed in presenting further occasion on which to exercise their vice, so I kept my remarks to the minimum. "So after

everywhere a good and a bad book

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

I pored over them," says he, "driving my cart or walking to labor, song by song, verse by verse, carefully noticing the true, tender or sublime, from affectation and fustian.

To prosper in this world, to gain felicity, victory and improvement, either for a man or a nation, there is but one thing requisite, That the man or nation can discern what the true regulations of the Universe are in regard to him and his pursuit, and can faithfully and steadfastly follow these.

Four times out of five the linesman gets a better view of the ball near him than the player himself.

I don't necessarily think that the world should know everything, and even if you consider yourself to be extremely honest, that doesn't mean you have to blurt everything out all the time.

If something is good, more is not necessarily better. Not always.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'

My motto is you should never take criticism from people you would never go to for advice.

When I started out at about 19, 20, it took me two years just to tell the difference between a jig and a reel. It does all sound the same, but what you can find once you go in - it's never-ending. So that's my love.

I don't read all the newspapers.

Everyone judges, it's a human nature.

sometimes it's hard to tell the truth because the truth is hard to see, because it exists in a misty, gray non-space between two strongly charged falsehoods that sound true but aren't.