Quotes About Discernment

If [more] information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.

There is a big difference between intelligence and wisdom. Many are fooled into thinking they are the same thing, but they are not. I have seen intelligent serial killers, but I've never seen a wise one.

Once You Have Some Success—If It's Not a "Hell, Yes!" It's a "No

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

There are 47,000 products in the average U.S. grocery store, but only a handful of them won't make you fat.

It's when I'm fuzzy about where I'm headed that I start to say yes to things willy-nilly.

Although there is disagreement on the exact number of taste qualities, everyone acknowledges that the number is small. The usual list includes sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami (Physiology and Behavior, 1991). So,

TF: Decide beforehand—and not reactively when emotions run high—what types of findings are worth acting upon or ignoring, and what your "if/then" actions will be

If you are reading an article that sucks, put it down and don't pick it back up. If you go to a movie and it's worse than Matrix III, get the hell out of there before more neurons die. If you're full after half a plate of ribs, put the damn fork down and don't order dessert.

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." THE

If I have nothing positive to say, I don't say anything.

Everything in discernment of spirits is directed toward action: toward firmly accepting what is of God and equally firmly rejecting what is not.

To hear God's call clearly; to follow that call faithfully, without addition or diminution; to love and to serve in the place and in the way that God truly desires: this is indeed the "delight" of persons in the second spiritual situation.

What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society.

What to read? Any good novel enlivens our ability to think about ambiguous situations and judge the intentions of others.

When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and experience. What terrified Klemperer was the way that this transition seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. At the end of the war a worker told Klemperer that "understanding is useless, you have to have faith. I believe in the Führer.

Do not give the gold in your pocket to one who doesn't value it.

Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.

The man who judges two equally brutal oppressors to be different, merely because they wear different faces, does not deserve freedom from oppression".–Pablo Sanchez, The Winter of Nations, 1851

I think comparisons are odious.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

I'm a right pain in the hole for my agent. I won't take certain parts if I think they're offensive or banal. For instance, I won't do a film if I think it's full of violence for violence's sake, or a television drama if I don't think it's intelligent writing.

I can't take up every film that is being offered to me.

Good scripts that are offered to me are few and far between, so I pick the best that I get.