Quotes About Discernment

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

When people show you who they are; believe them.

We only have twenty-four hours in a day. So you have a choice to walk with wise people and stack up more wisdom. Or you can become a companion of fools and your life will unravel.

Every right decision I've ever made has come from my gut, and every wrong decision I've ever made was a result of me not listening.

Those who can truly see, know.

There is a danger the wheat might burn with the chaff.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. —Smiles.

It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Ender's Game, page 111)

The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.

Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.

He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.

Didn't Jesus say something disparaging about casting pearls before swine?

I spend all my time thinking things through. It's acting on my thoughts that gets tricky. Which ones should I act on, and which ones should I ignore?

The problem was, the people who should shut up were the ones talking the most.

Maybe knowing about craziness means you don't have to fall for it.

you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. Qing-jao

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely.

When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom, you keep it to yourself.

Cuando tienes la sabiduría que otra persona sabe que necesita, ofrécela libremente. Pero cuando la otra persona no sepa todavía que necesita tu sabiduría, guárdatela para ti. La comida sólo parece atractiva a un hombre hambriento.