Quotes About Discernment

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Judge not the horse by his saddle.

Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely.

The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right names.

Have love in your heart, but be smart and express your compassion with restraint and detachment.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

People are tempted to tell you everything, with perfect accuracy, right up front, when they should be giving you just enough info to be useful, then a little more, then a little more.

One of the worst things about knowing a lot, or having access to a lot of information, is that we're tempted to share it all.

One rule of thumb is to keep searching for options until you fall in love at least twice. If you've only identified one good candidate for a job, for instance, you'll have the strong urge to talk yourself into hiring her, which is a recipe for the confirmation bias.

Intuitive intelligence is knowing though direct inner perceptions or direct knowing. It doesn't require study. The disciple just simply knows. There are usually no inner images or visions. Intuitive intelligence utilizes the crown chakra.

Come, let me know whether thou art a creature of good or not.' And he replied: `I am a man.

Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.

It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.

Independent inquiry is essential in our search for truth. Each of us must strive to actively discern truth for ourselves rather than simply looking to or relying upon external authority figures to give it to us. If we allow another person or group to give us truth, or merely accept their truth as our own, we are depending on someone else for our spirituality, for our enlightenment, for our happiness, our success, etc.

Study's good, because it microcosms everything—if you understand everything within the walls of what you study you can identify other walls too, other areas of study. Everything's separate and discrete and there is no macrocosm, really. When there are no walls there is no study, only chaos. And so you break it down.

la gran cantidad de elecciones que debemos hacer, junto con su complejidad, ha minado nuestra habilidad para escoger bien;

Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

Un écrivain, même habile, n'empêche pas un bon lecteur de lire entre les lignes.

Bal gibi tatl? sesi vard? ama, gereksiz konu?may? sevmezdi.

Practically all knowledge resolves itself into four forms: the knowledge of what to do, how to do, and when to do, and of what not to do.