Quotes About Discernment

and that there were many things grow-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

and that there were many things grown-ups did which couldn't properly be judged by young people until the young people were grown-ups themselves...

En general, los hombres juzgan más por los ojos que por la inteligencia, pues todos pueden ver, pero pocos comprenden lo que ven.

El príncipe prudente debe preferir rodearse de hombres de buen juicio a los que dará la libertad de decirle la verdad

Hay tres clases de cerebros: el primero discierne por sí, el segundo entiende lo que los otros disciernen y el tercero no entiende ni discierne lo que los otros disciernen. El primero es excelente, el segundo bueno y el tercero inútil.

Os homens em geral julgam mais pelos olhos que pelas mãos, porque o ver toca a todos, sentir toca a poucos: todos vêem aquilo que tu pareces, poucos sentem aquilo que tu és

That to choose on Abraham, one Moses, one David, was also to reject all the others that might have been

Dios cambia de rostros, y dichoso aquel que puede distinguirlo detrás de cada máscara. A veces es un vaso de agua fresca, a veces un hijo que brinca sobre nuestras rodillas, a veces una mujer coqueta y a veces un breve paseo matutino.

rationality is a very narrowly restricted skill.

Give them your brains, girl, never your guts.

Los prejuicios y el miedo nunca han destacado por su clarividencia

Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on.

A good life lesson is not to take strange meat from strange people. "You're

An epiphany was a useful revelation about the world around you; an apophany was a revelation, too, but wrong in that you had incorrectly discerned a pattern where none had existed, taking enlightenment from an untrue thing.

Apophenia, they called it. An epiphany was a useful revelation about the world around you; an apophany was a revelation, too, but wrong in that you had incorrectly discerned a pattern where none had existed, taking enlightenment from an untrue thing. It was the human way—seeing truth in the storm of darkness and noise. Faces in clouds, ghosts on video, Jesus on a piece of damn toast.

An epiphany was a useful revelation about the world around you; an apophany was a revelation, too, but wrong in that you had incorrectly discerned a pattern where none had existed, taking enlightenment from an untrue thing. It was the human way—seeing truth in the storm of darkness and noise. Faces in clouds, ghosts on video, Jesus on a piece of damn toast.

Quid? Quod eadem mente res dissimillimas comprehendimus, ut colorem saporem, calorem, odorem, sonum? Quae numquam quinque nuntiis animus cognosceret, nisi ad eum omnia referrentur et is omnium iudex solus esset.

In anger, nothing right nor judicious can be done.

If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.

The simplest and least flattering explanation was always the right one, I'd learned over the years. But

favored on her visits. Up close, it was plain

Pick your fights like you pick your nose: with complete awareness of where you are.

it trains the kid in question to determine when people in the corner of his eye are talking about him and when they are not, a useful skill in later life when sorting out bona-fide persecution from perceived persecution, the this-is-actually-happening from the mere paranoid manifestation

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.