Quotes About Discernment

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

Be transparent in your actions, and secret in your plans

Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently

The words of the Lord are written in the word around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life and you will discover where.

Train your eyes: they were made to see more than you think.

We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs (Buck, 105).

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.

She shook her head. "I don't know one pretty young man from the other," she declared.

This seems right to them today and that tomorrow and they do not know that one man's mind cannot say what is the true right for another. No, in their pride of a little learning they rush out to do evil

Dzigar Kongtrül has a sign on the front door of his retreat cabin that reads, "Don't believe everything you think." That's the basic idea here.

No passion disturbs the soundness of our judgement as anger does.

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

If a battle can not be won do not fight it.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously.

I'd always wanted to know the difference between a mark that was art and one that wasn't.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

The most important thing in art is taste.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

Art is the ability to separate the significant from the insignificant.