Quotes About Discernment

I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don't play.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them, ' not by their disclaimers.

In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions

Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

he patiently tolerated as much of him as he thought tolerable. The rest he ignored.

Sometimes the most dangerous enemy is a hasty heart," he said softly.

In books we converse with the wise, as in action with fools. That is, if we know how to select our books. Some books are to be tasted, reads a famous passage, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; all these groups forming, no doubt, an infinitesimal portion of the oceans and cataracts of ink in which the world is daily bathed and poisoned and drowned.

Prudens quæstio dimidium scientiæ—to know what to ask is already to know half.

In books "we converse with the wise, as in action with fools." That is, if we know how to select our books. "Some books are to be tasted," reads a famous passage, "others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested"; all these groups forming, no doubt, an infinitesimal portion of the oceans and cataracts of ink in which the world is daily bathed and poisoned and drowned.

He thought everything out carefully before acting; and therefore remained a bachelor all his life long.

One must pay a penalty for having a prejudice against obscurity.

One cannot go about indiscriminately telling the truth. It must be doled out in bits and pieces or no one shall ever believe it.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

Any fool can "obey" an order,' Hamo said, darkly. 'The clever thing is to interpret it.

After some years of varied experience with the bodies of the rich and the poor a man finds little to distinguish between them, bulks them as one and bases his working judgements on other matters.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

She looked at him fondly. You won't never make much of a liar, she said. I can see right through you like lookin down into still water. I expect law and politics is goin to be out of your reach.

It was the first time they had ever talked face to face and Breece divined in a moment of dizzy revelation something about Sutter that no one had noticed before. Why, he is mad, Breece thought. He's not what people say about him at all. He's not just mean as a snake or eccentric or independent. He's as mad as a hatter, and I don't know how they've let him go so long.

I got vision; the rest of the world is wearing bifocals.