Quotes About Discernment

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Beware, so long as you live, or judging men by their outwards appearance.

but it seemed to me that when you are in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

We are told not to privilege one story above another. All the stories must be told. Well, maybe that's true, maybe all stories are worth hearing, but not all stories are worth telling.

Don't mix your heart with your liver.

I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?

You can always tell a good woman by her sandwiches

He's only a dog. Yes but he has found me out.

Ses progrès dans la géométrie vous pourraient servir d'épreuve et de mesure certaine pour le développement de son intelligence : mais sitôt qu'il peut discerner ce qui est utile et ce qui ne l'est pas, il importe d'user de beaucoup de ménagement et d'art pour l'amener aux études spéculatives.

on ne connaît d'où est un homme qu'après qu'il a parlé.

It's not being prejudiced," Mom said. "It's a matter of accuracy in labeling.

Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.

I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late.

A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.

I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think in essence what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

You know what they say, 'You have to work at wisdom; you have to take pains to be reasonable, but to be foolish, just let yourself go.

When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them. I find it difficult after a gap of a few years to tinker - I'm more likely to destroy.

Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.