Quotes About Discernment

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.

When information is contextualized, it becomes knowledge. When knowledge compels convictions, it becomes wisdom.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

As for faces - you may look into them to know, whether a man's nose be a long or a short one.

Sometimes a friend isn't a friend. Sometimes a friend is a bad thing waiting to happen. You need to get some time to yourself. When you feel the need to bolt—bolt. Most of this shit you work out on your own anyway. You know what I'm talking about.

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Men are often praized for their sagassity, but all the fore sight in the world kant tell a dubble yelked egg untill it itz broken.

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

She was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles.

If in Doubt, don't do it

But what's right and what's good must be judged by one who knows all, but not by us.

When he did not think, but simply lived, he was continually aware of the presence of an infallible judge in his soul, determining which of two possible courses of action was the better and which was the worse, and as soon as he did not act rightly, he was at once aware of it.

for him all the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class—all the girls in the world except her, and those girls with all sorts of human weaknesses, and very ordinary girls: the other class—she alone, having no weaknesses of any sort and higher than all humanity.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Die Mathematik ist es, die uns vor dem Trug der Sinne schützt und uns den Unterschied zwischen Schein und Wahrheit kennen lehrt.

Satan's goal is to tweak a lie so cleverly that it sounds reasonable, truthful, even right. Eve

It can be extremely difficult to discern evil hearts because their intention is to look good, not be good.

the history of Christian attempts to discern the signs of the times makes discouraging reading. At

In politics, being deceived is no excuse.