Quotes About Discernment

Good judgement comes from experience. Sometimes, experience comes from bad judgement.

The good we advocate is not to never judge anybody or anything. The good, rather, is to carefully and reasonably judge (weigh, appraise, discern and perhaps appropriately critique) all things in life – but always with an awareness of one's own fallibility, openness to learning and an interest in all moving closer to the truth.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

My mom knows when something is real and something is not.

Don't cater to stupidity.

People who generalise about people are dismissed as superficial. It's only when you've known large numbers of people that you can spot the unusual ones—when you look at each one as if you'd never seen one before, they all look alike.

You don't have to chase every bird that you see.

History is a card table full of illusions, and we must sort through and pick the ones we wish to believe.

It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. Darkness does not judge.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

Awareness is key, and we need to apply our best judgment and intuition to each situation.

Noi facem deosebirea dintre o capr? ?i o oaie; dar oare putem distinge o capr? de o alt? capr? sau o oaie de o alt? oaie?

Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? ­

Clever men will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

When you listen for the words of God and follow them, you will hear more. When you do not listen or do not follow, you will hear less and less until finally you may not hear at all.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Distinction without a difference.

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.