Quotes About Discernment

Common sense is the heart of investing and business management.

Even where men's conceptions are sound and reasonable, where by their own creative power and their discernment of actuality they correspond to things, actuality in its capacity as Luck, will behave in an unreasonable way, as Pericles says, and overturn conceptions of the greatest nobility and intelligence.

THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas, is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

The imperfect squares would be sorted out of his bowl before he poured in the milk.

It's better to be silent than to be a fool.

But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In every smoothed wrinkle, every perfected motion, there was an air of moral judgment, though he didn't intend it. There were people, he implied, who lived sloppy lives, and then there were people like him. ~Gilley

Kelsko was a toad. But he was proud. Kelsko was a pathological liar, but he was not a sucker for the lies of others, the way most liars were, for he had not lost the ability to perceive the difference between truth and falsehood. He simply had no respect for that difference.

when meeting someone, our brains are in overdrive. Remember Shakespeare's Julius Caesar? He said of Cassius, he "has a lean and hungry look . . . he thinks too much . . . such men are dangerous.

In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.

Sometimes when someone tells a ridiculous lie, it is best to ignore it entirely.

What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

It's an important skill to know when not to say anything. It's not a skill that came naturally to me then, nor does it come naturally now, nor do I expect it to come naturally to me until I am dead, when I will be very, very good at it.

It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

You should never have told them,' said Dicky, who could always be relied upon for excellent advice long after it was any use.

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

I'm a detective. I ask questions until I like the answers.

you're going to have a wreck in a truck and someone comes along and offers you a ride in a truck, then do not accept it.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

Surely the desired end product of high school U.S. history courses is graduates who can think clearly, distinguish evidence from opinion, and separate truth from what comedian Stephen Colbert famously called "truthiness.