Quotes About Discernment

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else's opinion.

We only listen to what we want to hear.

Nothing but your choices define your true intelligence.

Friends, try to understand 'what is what'!!

Never lose your sense of common sense.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person that can find the remedies.

I Don't use common sense i use senses that's way more significant than common !!

Before fighting for truth, find the truth.

Does it look like I have stupid written across my forehead

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.