Quotes About Discernment

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. -Josh Billings

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

connoisseur

You might not know when it's wrong, but you sure know when it's right.

Advice is a dangerous thing, the Watcher responded. It should be given only rarely and cautiously, and taken in small doses with skepticism.

Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge. -Elinor Dashwood

Sense will always have attractions for me.

The less said the better.

I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal...

Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader.

Qualquer pessoa, seja homem ou mulher, que não souber apreciar um bom romance deve ser insuportavelmente estúpido.

Men never know when things are dirty or not

It is possible to read too many novels. Henry Tileny, Northanger Abbey

Los que no cambian nunca de opinión deben cerciorarse bien antes de juzgar.

Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives.

convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.

I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong.

I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away, where either were concerned.

Better be without sense, than misapply it as you do.