Quotes About Discernment

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don't recognize a person's true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

Employers know the nature of people best.

Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.

I have a strong theory that you can tell a lot about someone by their coffee order

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.

You find bargains among the unpopular things, the things that everybody hates. The key is that you must have patience.

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Force without judgement falls on its own weight.

Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.

A key to life is knowing what to ignore and when to shut up. :)

The problem with many believers today is that they try to cooperate with the world