Quotes About Discernment

It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

Art isn't about drawing; it's about learning to see. What organization doesn't need this ability?

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living".

Artists show us what we blind to."Baris Gencel

Know everything. Say nothing.

never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and that it conformed to his principles as well, before he did it.

Los indicios de chifladura son bien sencillos de encontrar, y cuanto más ahondamos en nosotros mismos, más salen a relucir.

I see', said Smee, still not seeing.

You don't propose marriage after one date. You don't decide on a career after one article or class session. You don't cast your vote based on one opinion of the candidate in question. Stories, essays, novels, and memoirs all deserve to be, indeed have to be read multiple times. Every writer worth his or her salt knows that writing is rewriting. Every reader should know the same thing about understanding text: that is, real reading is rereading.

You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

CHUNG-CHA HAD NEVER MET a westerner who could tell the difference between a Chinese and a Japanese, much less a North Korean and a South Korean.

Your job is to choose the solution that you think is the most appropriate. This decision-making isn't subjective; it comes from informed judgment.

It's the easiest thing in the world to judge things by appearances, Ce'Nedra," she said, "and it's usually wrong.

There is a danger in exposing yourself to too much vapid art. It can weaken your judgment and erode your sensibilities, until the time comes when you see things that are merely passable, and somehow think that they're good.

It's a thin line between what we're calling acceptable and not acceptable. As a leader, you're supposed to know when not to cross it. But how do you know? Does the army teach us how to control our emotions? Does the army teach us how to deal with a friend bleeding out in front of you? No.